Joppa

5 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Joppa
       n : a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated
           into Tel Aviv in 1950 [syn: {Jaffa}, {Yafo}]

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:



  Joppa
     beauty, a town in the portion of Dan (Josh. 19:46; A.V.,
     "Japho"), on a sandy promontory between Caesarea and Gaza, and
     at a distance of 30 miles north-west from Jerusalem. It is one
     of the oldest towns in Asia. It was and still is the chief
     sea-port of Judea. It was never wrested from the Phoenicians. It
     became a Jewish town only in the second century B.C. It was from
     this port that Jonah "took ship to flee from the presence of the
     Lord" (Jonah 1:3). To this place also the wood cut in Lebanon by
     Hiram's men for Solomon was brought in floats (2 Chr. 2:16); and
     here the material for the building of the second temple was also
     landed (Ezra 3:7). At Joppa, in the house of Simon the tanner,
     "by the sea-side," Peter resided "many days," and here, "on the
     house-top," he had his "vision of tolerance" (Acts 9:36-43). It
     bears the modern name of Jaffa, and exibituds all the
     decrepitude and squalor of cities ruled over by the Turks.
     "Scarcely any other town has been so often overthrown, sacked,
     pillaged, burned, and rebuilt." Its present population is said
     to be about 16,000. It was taken by the French under Napoleon in
     1799, who gave orders for the massacre here of 4,000 prisoners.
     It is connected with Jerusalem by the only carriage road that
     exists in the country, and also by a railway completed in 1892.
     It is noticed on monuments B.C. 1600-1300, and was attacked by
     Sannacharib B.C. 702.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Joppa, beauty; comeliness
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Joppa, AL
    Zip code(s): 35087
  Joppa, IL (village, FIPS 38674)
    Location: 37.20578 N, 88.84426 W
    Population (1990): 492 (224 housing units)
    Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 62953
  Joppa, MD
    Zip code(s): 21085

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Joppa, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
     Population (2000):    409
     Housing Units (2000): 203
     Land area (2000):     0.487929 sq. miles (1.263729 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.008182 sq. miles (0.021191 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.496111 sq. miles (1.284920 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            38674
     Located within:       Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
     Location:             37.207399 N, 88.843033 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     62953
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Joppa, IL
      Joppa