WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Joppa
    n 1: a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated
         into Tel Aviv in 1950 [syn: Jaffa, Joppa, Yafo]

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

Joppa
   beauty, a town in the portion of Dan (Josh. 19:46; A.V.,
   "Japho"), on a sandy promontory between Caesarea and Gaza, and
   at a distance of 30 miles north-west from Jerusalem. It is one
   of the oldest towns in Asia. It was and still is the chief
   sea-port of Judea. It was never wrested from the Phoenicians. It
   became a Jewish town only in the second century B.C. It was from
   this port that Jonah "took ship to flee from the presence of the
   Lord" (Jonah 1:3). To this place also the wood cut in Lebanon by
   Hiram's men for Solomon was brought in floats (2 Chr. 2:16); and
   here the material for the building of the second temple was also
   landed (Ezra 3:7). At Joppa, in the house of Simon the tanner,
   "by the sea-side," Peter resided "many days," and here, "on the
   house-top," he had his "vision of tolerance" (Acts 9:36-43). It
   bears the modern name of Jaffa, and exibituds all the
   decrepitude and squalor of cities ruled over by the Turks.
   "Scarcely any other town has been so often overthrown, sacked,
   pillaged, burned, and rebuilt." Its present population is said
   to be about 16,000. It was taken by the French under Napoleon in
   1799, who gave orders for the massacre here of 4,000 prisoners.
   It is connected with Jerusalem by the only carriage road that
   exists in the country, and also by a railway completed in 1892.
   It is noticed on monuments B.C. 1600-1300, and was attacked by
   Sannacharib B.C. 702.


Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's):

Joppa, beauty; comeliness


U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Joppa, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
   Population (2000):    409
   Housing Units (2000): 203
   Land area (2000):     0.487929 sq. miles (1.263729 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.008182 sq. miles (0.021191 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.496111 sq. miles (1.284920 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            38674
   Located within:       Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
   Location:             37.207399 N, 88.843033 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     62953
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Joppa, IL
    Joppa