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|strgr=of [[Hebrew]] [[origin]] (יָפוֹ); Joppe (i.e. Japho), a [[place]] in [[Palestine]]: Joppa. | |strgr=of [[Hebrew]] [[origin]] (יָפוֹ); Joppe (i.e. Japho), a [[place]] in [[Palestine]]: Joppa. | ||
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|txtha=(to [[which]] [[common]] spelling the [[ancient]] lexicographers [[prefer]] Ἰοπη, cf. Movers, Phönizier, ii. 2, p. 176 Anm.), Ἰόππης, ἡ, ([[Hebrew]] יָפו i. e. [[beauty]], from יָפָה to [[shine]], be [[beautiful]]; (others [[make]] the [[name]] [[mean]] 'an [[eminence]]'; others [[besides]])), Joppa, a [[city]] of [[Palestine]] on the [[Mediterranean]], [[lying]] on the [[border]] of the tribes of Dan and Ephraim. It [[was]] [[subject]] to the Jews from the [[time]] of the Maccabees (105-63 B.C.>). It had a [[celebrated]] [[but]] [[dangerous]] [[port]] and carried on a [[flourishing]] [[trade]]; [[now]] Yafa ([[not]] Jaffa): Winer s RWB [[under]] the [[word]] Joppe; Rüetschi in Herzog vii., p. 4 f; Fritzsche in Schenkel iii., 376f; (BB. DD.). | |||
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