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Beside streams of water (עַֽל־פַּלְגֵי־מָ֥יִם - al palgei mayim): Means beside one of the streams. Similar [constructions where a plural denotes one instance within a category include]: "to the innermost parts (yarketei - plural construct) of the ship" (Jonah 1:5) [referring to one area]; "and he was buried in the cities (be-arei - plural construct) of Gilead" (Judges 12:7) [meaning in one city]; "son of she-asses" (atonot - plural) (Zechariah 9:9) [likely referring to the foal of one specific donkey]. And some say (v'yesh omrim): That the meaning of "its fruit" (piryo) is analogous to "children of youth" (Psalm 127:4) [interpreting the fruit metaphorically as descendants].

Option Number 5 - Yarketei HaSefinah
The Torah Academy students and I suggest an approach based on the fact that the Pasuk records not that Yonah descended to the bottom of the ship, but rather to the “Yarketei HaSefinah,” “the very bottom of the boat³⁷This contrasts with Ibn Ezra and Radak’s explanation that Yonah went to one of the ends of the boat. Our explanation focuses on the word Yarad, descend, that implies that Yonah went to the very bottom of the boat and not simply to one of its ends. ” (Yonah 1:5). My Talmid Akiva Motechin understands that Yonah was once again rebelling against Hashem and retreated to the furthest place possible away from the storm.

יטול He throweth; comp. ויטילו and cast Him forth (Jon. 1:5), though of a different root. According to R. Jonah ימול is Niphal, but that is very improbable; it can also be explained He taketh up and compared with נוטל carrying (Mishnah Shab. 17:2).³⁸יטּול. can be Niphal of טול as well as Kal of נטל; but the construction of the sentence is not in favour of the former, for we should then have to supply the relative אשר: The isles are like dust that is carried away; but ימול being taken as the Kal of נטל requires no such supplement.

ממלח TEMPERED TOGETHER — Understand this as the Targum renders it: מעורב, mixed — that they should thoroughly intermix the powder of the ingredients. I think that similar in meaning to it are the nouns in (Jona 1:5) “Then the mariners (המלחים) were afraid”; (Ezekiel 27:27) “thy mariners (מלחיך) and thy pilots”, who are so called because they turn over (stir up) the water with oars when they propel the ship — like a person who stirs up beaten eggs with a spoon in order to mix them with water. Anything that a person wishes to mix up thoroughly he stirs up with his finger or with a spoon.