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HebrewH3305Noun

יָפוֹ

ya.pho

3Occurrences
H3305Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Japho, a place in Palestine

or יָפוֹא; (Ezra 3:7), from H3302 (יָפָה); beautiful;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Joppa or Japho = "beautiful" a town on the southwest coast of Palestine in the territory of Dan; became primary port of Jerusalem during reign of Solomon Also named: Ioppē (*Ἰόππη *"Joppa" G2445)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

יָפוֹ appears 3 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Ezra
1
Jonah
1
Joshua
1

Key Passages

Ezra 3:7BSB

They gave money to the masons and carpenters, and food and drink and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon to Joppa by sea, as authorized by Cyrus king of Persia.

Jonah 1:3BSB

Jonah, however, got up to flee to Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD. He went down to Joppa and found a ship bound for Tarshish. So he paid the fare and went aboard to sail for Tarshish, away from the presence of the LORD.

Joshua 19:46BSB

Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, including the territory across from Joppa.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.