Joppa (Japho)

• Places
• BD Joppa

Coastal city in southern Israel near Samaria and Judea. It was the closest port city to Jerusalem.

• Jonah embarked from here to Tarshish and swallowed by a great fish (Jonah 1:3-17).
• Solomon used it as a harbor to bring trees down from the north. See 2 Chronicles 2:16 and Ezra 3:7.