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Strong's #3305: Yapho (pronounced yaw-fo')

or Yaphow (Ezra 3:7) {yaw-fo'}; from 3302; beautiful; Japho, a place in Palestine:--Japha, Joppa.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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yâphô / yâphô'

Joppa or Japho = "beautiful"

1) a town on the southwest coast of Palestine in the territory of Dan; became primary port of Jerusalem during reign of Solomon

Part of Speech: noun proper locative

Relation: from H3302



Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

Joshua 19:46: "with the border before Japho."
2 Chronicles 2:16: "it to thee in floats by sea to Joppa; and thou shalt carry it up to Jerusalem."
Ezra 3:7: "Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia."
Jonah 1:3: "from the presence and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going"









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