Discovery BoxJonah 1:10 
Context1:10 Hearing this, 1 the men became even more afraid 2 and said to him, “What have you done?” (The men said this because they knew that he was trying to escape 3 from the Lord, 4 because he had previously told them. 5 )
Jonah 1:12
Context1:12 He said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea to make the sea quiet down, 6 because I know it’s my fault you are in this severe storm.”
1 tn Heb “Then the men feared…” The vav-consecutive describes the consequence of Jonah’s statement. The phrase “Hearing this” does not appear in the Hebrew text but is supplied in the translation for the sake of clarity.
2 tn Heb “The men feared a great fear.” The cognate accusative construction using the verb יָרֵא (yare’, “to fear”) and the noun יִרְאָה (yir’ah, “fear”) from the same root (ירא, yr’) emphasizes the sailors’ escalating fright: “they became very afraid” (see IBHS 167 §10.2.1g).
3 tn Heb “fleeing.”
4 sn The first two times that Jonah is said to be running away from the
5 tn Heb “because he had told them.” The verb הִגִּיד (higgid, “he had told”) functions as a past perfect, referring to a previous event.
6 tn Heb “quiet for you”; NAB “that it may quiet down for you.”
