Atlas Biblica

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    Joppa

    יָפוֹἸόππη

    Joppa, an ancient seaport on the Mediterranean coast, served as the main port for Jerusalem in biblical times.

    Where the story of Joppa happens Where the gazetteer locates Joppa, framed to them: Joppa. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Joppa
    Where the gazetteer locates Joppa
    verses
    14
    first named
    Joshua 19:46
    last named
    Acts 11:5
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    32.05°N · 34.75°E
    settlement32.05°N · 34.75°E

    Jaffa (OpenBible)

    The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.

    Description

    Joppa in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Joppa, also known as Japho in the Old Testament and modern-day Jaffa, is one of the oldest cities in the world, located on the Mediterranean coast of Israel. It is first mentioned as part of the inheritance of the tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:46). Joppa served as the main seaport for Jerusalem, and it was here that the cedar wood from Lebanon arrived for the construction of Solomon's Temple (2Ch.2.16) and later for the Second Temple (Ezra 3:7). The prophet Jonah set sail from Joppa when he tried to flee from God's command to preach in Nineveh (Jonah 1:3). In the New Testament, Joppa is significant as the place where Peter stayed with Simon the tanner and had a vision that led him to preach to the Gentiles (Act.9.36-43; 10:5-23). It was also the home of Tabitha (Dorcas), whom Peter raised from the dead (Act.9.36-42). Joppa has a long and rich history, and its strategic location made it an important city throughout biblical times.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Stands in the same events as

    and 5 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    The pattern

    Where Joppa is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 14 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA1 VERSE2 CHRONICLES–EZRA2 VERSESACTS10 VERSES16 books and 476 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 14 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA1 VERSE2 CHRONICLES–EZRA2 VERSESACTS10 VERSES16 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Joppa is named in 14 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 61 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 14, across 5 books.

    1. Joshua1 verse

      19:46

    2. 2 Chronicles1 verse

      2:16

    3. Ezra1 verse

      3:7

    4. Jonah1 verse

      1:3

    5. Acts10 verses

      9:369:389:429:4310:510:810:2310:3211:511:13

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

    What this rests on