Bar-Jonah
Bar-Jonah
BAR-JONAH.See Bar, and John (No. 6).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Bar-Jonah
bar-jona (-, Bar-ionas): Simon Peter’s patronymic (Mat 16:17). Bar is Aramaic for son (compare Bar-timaeus, Bartholomew, etc.), and corresponds to Hebrew ben. Thus we are to understand that Peter’s father’s name was Jonah. But in Joh 1:42; Joh 21:15-17, according to the best reading, his name is given as John (so the Revised Version (British and American), instead of the King James Version Jona, Jonas). There are two hypotheses to account for this difference: (1) Ionas (Jonah) in Mat 16:17 may be simply a contraction of Ioanes (John); (2) Peter’s father may have been known by two names, Jonah and John.