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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Japha (Joppa)
The Hebrew name for Joppa, the port that is Jaffa today. Solomon's cedar came in by sea there, and so did Ezra's timber for the second temple, and Jonah sailed from it toward Tarshish. The Amarna letters already mention its guarded gate.
The Hebrew name for Joppa, the port that is Jaffa today. Solomon's cedar came in by sea there, and so did Ezra's timber for the second temple, and Jonah sailed from it toward Tarshish. The Amarna letters already mention its guarded gate.
Japho is the Hebrew name for the port city better known by its Greek form, Joppa (modern Jaffa, now part of Tel Aviv). Solomon's cedar for the temple, and later Ezra's timber for the second temple, arrived by sea at Joppa before being hauled up to Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 2:16; Ezra 3:7). It also marked the tribal border of Dan (Joshua 19:46) and was the port Jonah fled through toward Tarshish. Egyptian records from the Amarna archive already mention a guarded gate of Joppa centuries earlier, showing the city's long standing as a coastal gateway.
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- Joshua 19:46
- 2 Chronicles 2:16
- Ezra 3:7
- Jonah 1:3
