se.phi.nah denotes the vessel whose hold Jonah enters as sailors throw cargo into the sea.

The attested use identifies the vessel in Jonah 1:5: sailors throw articles from it into the sea, while Jonah goes down into its hold.

1. Vessel with a hold · dominant

   In Jonah 1:5, the feminine singular absolute noun occurs in the scene where sailors cast articles into the sea and Jonah goes down into the vessel’s hold. The APB renders the verse with “the ship” and later “the hold of the ship.”

   Jonah 1:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Jonah 1:5, the APB presents the vessel as “the ship” and refers to “the hold of the ship.” The precise correspondence of each English phrase to the noun cannot be isolated.