Meaning of JOPPA

"beauty".
Ancient fortified city and seaport, attributed to the tribe of Dan (Josh. 19:46). It is located about 55 km from Jerusalem. He received the wood sent from Tire for the construction of Solomon's Temple (2 Chr. 2:16).

From this port Jonah embarked to go to Tarshish (Jon. 1:3), trying to escape from God.
When the reconstruction of the Temple was undertaken after the Babylonian exile, it once again became the port of reception of wood from Lebanon for this purpose (Ezra 3:7).

There the apostle Peter resurrected Tabitha, and lived for a certain time in the house of a tanner named Simon (Acts 9:36-43). There Cornelius's servants went to look for him from Caesarea (Acts 10:5-48).

Today it is called Jafa, and it is located on the shores of the Mediterranean, on a hill just over 35 m high. high, It is an important port in the state of Israel, and forms the Tel-Aviv-Jafa conurbation, with about 360,000 inhabitants counting only the central area of Tel Aviv-Jafa.