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In the book of Jonah the Hebrew word for the sea creature is dag, meaning ‘fish’. In the New Testament, the Greek word used by Matthew was ktos, meaning ‘sea monster’, and is so rendered in the Revised Version margin. The King James Version translators translated this term as ‘whale’, possibly because it was the largest sea creature of which they knew.
