Did the Biblical Jonah spend 3 days in the belly of a whale or in an unidentified submerged object?

jonah and the whale

Jonah (Hebrew: ‏יוֹנָה‎ Yona, literally “dove”; St. Greek: Ἰωνᾶς) is an Israeli prophet who lived in the 8th century B.C., coming from Gath-Hepher (Gat-Hefer), a city located in the territory of Zebulun in the Lower Galilee, between Nazareth and Capernaum. According to the Bible, Jonah was sent by Yahweh to the capital of Assyria, Nineveh, … Read more