Joppa
JOP`PA (beauty), A town on the Mediterranean coast of
Israel; the seaport of Jerusalem, 1 Kings 5:9 ; 2 Chron.
2:16; Ezra 3:7 ; 2 Kings 14:25. Now Jaffa. It was of
Phoenician origin and during the middle ages frequently
changed hands by conquest. Now belongs to the Israel....
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jop'-a (yapho, yapho'; Ioppe): In Josh 19:46 the King James
Version called "Japho," a city in the territory allotted to
Dan; but there is nothing to show that in pre-exilic times
it ever passed into Israelite hands.
1. Ancient Notices:
"The gate of Joppa" is mentioned in the Tell el-Amarna
Letters (214, 32 f; compare 178, 20), as guarded by an ...
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A seaport
Jos 19:46
-Exports from
2Ch 2:16; Ezr 3:7
-Passenger traffic from
Jon 1:3
-Peter performs a miracle at
Ac 9:36-43
-Peter has a vision of a sheet lowered down from the sky, at
Ac 10:9-18...
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(beauty), now Jaffa, a town on the southwest coast of
Israel, in the portion of Dan. Jos 19:46 Having a harbor
attached to it --though always, as still, a dangerous one --it
became the port of Jerusalem in the days of Solomon, and has
been ever since. Here Jonah "took ship to flee from the
presence of his Maker." Here, on the house-top of Simo...
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beauty, a town in the portion of Dan (Josh. 19:46; A.V.,
"Japho"), on a sandy promontory between Caesarea and
Gaza, and
at a distance of 30 miles north-west from Jerusalem.
It is one
of the oldest towns in Asia. It was and still is the
chief
sea-port of Judea. It was never wrested from the
Phoenicians. It
became a Jewish town only in the s...
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But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of
the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to
Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it,
to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD....
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And we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt
need: and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa;
and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem....
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Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname
is Peter; he is lodged in the house of [one] Simon a tanner by
the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee....
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They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters;
and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them
of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of
Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of
Persia....
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