How many times is the whale mentioned in the bible?

Answer 1

In the King James version

the word - whale - appears twice

• Job 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
• Eze 32:2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

the word - whale's - appears once

• Mat 12:40 For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

the word - whales - appears once

• Gen 1:21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.