יָפוֹYâphôw

proper name [of a location]: Joppa, seaport town of Palestine (Jerusalem) (Joshua 19:46; Jonah 1:3; 2 Chronicles 2:15; Ezra 3:7)

Pronunciation: yaw-fo' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3305

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 4 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 19:46 Me-jarkon, Rakkon, and the territory across from Joppa.
  • 2 Chronicles 2:16 We will cut whatever timber you need from the Lebanon mountains and will float the logs in rafts down the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to Joppa. From there you can transport the logs up to Jerusalem.”
  • Ezra 3:7 Then the people hired masons and carpenters and bought cedar logs from the people of Tyre and Sidon, paying them with food, wine, and olive oil. The logs were brought down from the Lebanon mountains and floated along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea to Joppa, for King Cyrus had given permission for this.
  • Jonah 1:3 But Jonah got up and went in the opposite direction to get away from the Lord. He went down to the port of Joppa, where he found a ship leaving for Tarshish. He bought a ticket and went on board, hoping to escape from the Lord by sailing to Tarshish.

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).