Joppa, an ancient town and seaport, now Jaffa, on the coast of Palestine, 35 m. NW. from Jerusalem; a place of note in sacred and mediæval history; here Jonah took ship to Tarshish.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Jonson, Ben * Jordaens, Jakob