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Joppa

[ jop-uh ]

noun

  1. ancient name of Jaffa.


Joppa

/ ˈdʒɒpə /

noun

  1. the biblical name of Jaffa, the port from which Jonah embarked (Jonah 1:3)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Leaving Afghanistan for good, Joppa-Hagemann said, is the only thing that will really help.

He also saw a counselor for alcohol abuse but the Army told him he needed to do that on his own time, Joppa-Hagemann said.

Then Joppa,617 where the coast of Egypt, which at first stretches towards the east, makes a remarkable bend towards the north.

By the seventh day the yacht was off the Palestine coast, and Joppa, seated on her cliffs, appeared over a foaming roadstead.

Some of our people from Joppa afterwards took three of the ships we had seen, and enriched themselves with their spoils.

The pilgrims answered, that they would attend his orders at Joppa, promising to be obedient to him in all things, even unto death.

On the Sabbath after their wending he preached from the text, "Send men to Joppa."

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