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# יָפוֹ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3305

**Japha** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Japha [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3305/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָפוֹ: n.pr.loc. Joppa [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3305/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. Joppa (Ph. יפי; Assyrian Ja(p)pu COT Gloss. Bez Tel-el-Amarna Tabl. in Brit. Mus. 146; Egyptian Ye-pu WMM 159)—seaport town of Palestine (Jerusalem), יָפוֹ Jos 19:46 Jon 1:3 2 Ch 2:15 = יָפוֹא Ezr 3:7; 𝔊 Ιοππα, mod. Jaffa.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Joppa (3); of Joppa (1).

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.46/#tree)

וּמֵ֥י הַיַּרְק֖וֹן מֵ֥י הַיַּרְק֖וֹן וְהָֽרַקּ֑וֹן עִֽם־הַגְּב֖וּל מ֥וּל יָפֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and the.waters of.(the).Jarkon and (the) Rakkon with the territory opposite.to Joppa

*JPS 1917:* and Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa.

[2 Chronicles 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.2.15/#tree)

וַ֠אֲנַחְנוּ נִכְרֹ֨ת עֵצִ֤ים מִן־הַלְּבָנוֹן֙ כְּכָל־צָרְכֶּ֔ךָ וּנְבִיאֵ֥ם לְךָ֛ רַפְסֹד֖וֹת עַל־יָ֣ם יָפ֑וֹ וְאַתָּ֛ה תַּעֲלֶ֥ה אֹתָ֖ם יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* and we we.will.cut wood(s) from (the) Lebanon according to.all need your and we will.bring.them to you rafts on \[the\].sea Joppa and you you.will.take.up them Jerusalem

*JPS 1917:* and we will cut wood out of Lebanon, as much as thou shalt need; and we will bring it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3305.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3305/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).