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Joppa

Judea · today Jaffa

The port where Peter raises Tabitha and has the vision of the unclean animals, which is what prepares him for the house of Cornelius.

ANCIENT NAMES

  • Yȧfo Biblical Hebrew
  • Ἰόππη Ioppe, Ἰόπη Iope Greek
  • Jappû Akkadian
  • ypy Phoenician

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Skip the map 15°E 20°E 25°E 30°E 35°E 40°E 45°E 50°E 28°N 32°N 36°N 40°N Tarshish TARSHISH ? Sidon Sidon Rakkon Rakkon Me-jarkon Me-jarkon Lod Lod Lebanon LEBANON Great Sea Great Sea Caesarea Caesarea Tyre Tyre Persia PERSIA Jerusalem Jerusalem Joppa Joppa 100 mi scriptoria.digital Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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city known location approximate debated 11 places · 1 outside this view · c. AD 30-62 · modern coastline: harbors have silted up over two thousand years · drag and zoom · Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

WITH CAESAREA · GREAT SEA · LEBANON · LOD AND 7 MORE, named in the same passages

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How to cite: Scriptoria, Bible Atlas, 2026. scriptoria.digital. License CC BY 4.0.

Map: Scriptoria, CC BY 4.0. Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0. Coast and rivers: Natural Earth, public domain. Relief: ETOPO 2022 (NOAA NCEI), public domain. The credits are in each sheet's footer.

Aerial cityscape of Jaffa.

Aerial cityscape of Jaffa.

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DISTANCES IN A STRAIGHT LINE

  • Lod ABOUT 11 MI (18 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE · A DAY ON FOOT
  • Caesarea ABOUT 32 MI (51 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE · 3 DAYS ON FOOT
  • Tyre ABOUT 88 MI (140 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE · 7 DAYS ON FOOT
  • Sidon ABOUT 110 MI (180 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE · 8 DAYS ON FOOT
  • Jerusalem ABOUT 34 MI (55 KM) IN A STRAIGHT LINE · 3 DAYS ON FOOT

In a straight line, between the atlas's coordinates. On foot, at 30 km (19 mi) a day on a road 1.3 times longer than the line.

14 PASSAGES · 5 BOOKS

COORDINATES 32.0545, 34.7530

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ON WIKIDATA · Q180294