But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.
"And went down into it to go with them unto Tarshish ..." There is a glimpse in this verse, and in  Jonah 1:5, of the kind of ship Jonah boarded. "The Hebrew word for ship (Jonah 1: 5) is [~shephinah], and is found nowhere else; and from its derivation (from [~saphan] = "to cover") implies that the vessel was decked."[23]  Thus, Jonah's going "down into it" indicates that he went below decks into the hold of the ship.