Joppa
A place in the Bible
A port city on the coast of the Holy Land, on the Mediterranean Sea.
What happened here
- Jonah runs away: the Lord sent him to Nineveh, but Jonah went down to Joppa and boarded a ship going to Tarshish, away from the Lord.
- Peter: he stayed many days in Joppa, at the house of a tanner named Simon, by the sea.
- The vision: in Joppa, Peter went up to the roof to pray. He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet coming down.
- Cornelius: the centurion Cornelius sent for Peter at Joppa.
Today
Today it is Jaffa, the old quarter of Tel Aviv, in Israel.
Where it appears in the Bible
Acts 10:6; Jonah 1:2-3; Acts 9:43; Acts 10:9-11; Acts 10:5
What the Bible says
Acts 10:6
He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side. He will tell thee what thou must do.
Jonah 1:2-3
2Arise, and go to Ninive the great city, and preach in it: for the wickedness thereof is come up before me. 3And Jonas rose up to flee into Tharsis from the face of the Lord, and he went down to Joppe, and found a ship going to Tharsis: and he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them to Tharsis from the face of the Lord.
Acts 9:43
And it came to pass, that he abode many days in Joppe, with one Simon a tanner.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Jaffa”; Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), “Joppa”