Verse Lens · Context pointer
Jonah 1:11 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 11. 11Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto thee, that the sea may be calm unto us? for the sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
King James Version — public domain in the United States · Bible text and permissions
Role in This Section
This verse opens deliberation about what might calm the increasingly violent sea.
Read It With
- Jonah 1:11–16
Read Jonah 1:11–16 together. This verse opens deliberation about what might calm the increasingly violent sea. Read Jonah 1:11–16 as one complete scene: Jonah tells the sailors to cast him into the sea, but they first row for land; only after failure and prayer against innocent blood do they throw him overboard, whereupon the sea calms and they fear, sacrifice, and vow to the LORD.
Why It Needs Context
This line performs one step inside Jonah 1:11–16; isolating it would detach that step from the scene's cause, response, and outcome. Specifically, this verse opens deliberation about what might calm the increasingly violent sea.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Jonah 1:11–16 — The Sailors Resist Bloodshed, the Sea Calms, and They WorshipSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Jonah 1:11–16, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jonah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew forms, morphology, repeated roots, clause relationships, names, and the base wording behind translation discussion.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jonah.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 1:11–16
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