'Dove' (Yonah), son of Amittai ('my faithfulness,' from emet, truth) — so, literally, 'Dove, son of Faithfulness,' which is a joke at the runaway's expense. ⚠ He is a REAL, datable prophet: 2 Kings 14:25 names Jonah son of Amittai of Gath-hepher as the prophet whose word Jeroboam II fulfilled by restoring Israel's northern borders in the mid-eighth century BC — a NATIONALIST good-news prophet, the man who told Israel it would grow. The book of Jonah takes that prophet and sends him to save Nineveh, the capital of the empire that would one day destroy Israel — and he runs the other way, to Tarshish. He is the anti-hero of his own book: the only prophet in the Bible who flatly disobeys, who is out-prayed by pagan sailors and out-repented by a heathen city, and who ends the book furious that God was merciful. Jesus invokes 'the sign of Jonah' — three days in the fish, and Nineveh's repentance as a rebuke to his own generation (Matthew 12:39-41; Luke 11:29-32). The Vulgate and Douay call him JONAS.