====== 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.