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-====== Joppa ======
+====== Joppa (Japho) ======
-Coastal city in southern Israel near Samaria and Judea.
+  * [[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.