<Tr> <Th> Major shrine </Th> <Td> Tomb of Jonah (destroyed), Mosul, Iraq </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Feast </Th> <Td> September 21--Roman Catholicism July 31 </Td> </Tr> <P> Jonah or Jonas is the name given in the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh / Old Testament) to a prophet of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE . He is the eponymous central figure in the Book of Jonah, in which he is swallowed by a fish . The biblical narrative of Jonah is repeated, with a few notable differences, in the Quran . </P> <P> Jonah is the son of Amittai, and he appears in 2 Kings as a prophet from Gath - Hepher, a few miles north of Nazareth . He is therein described as being active during the reign of the second King Jeroboam (c. 786--746 BCE), and as predicting that Jeroboam will recover certain lost territories . </P>

Who is the prophet who was thrown into the sea and swallowed by the whale