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Jaffa
n. former port city in western Israel which was made a part of Tel Aviv in 1950 (also Yafo); variety of orange grown mainly in Israel


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Jaffa (Hebrew: יָפוֹ, Yafo  Arabic: يَافَا ; also Japho, Joppa; also, per c.1350 BCE Amarna Letters, Yapu) is an ancient port city located south of Tel AvivIsrael on the Mediterranean Sea. Today it is a neighborhood of the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo.It is mentioned four times in the Hebrew Bible, as one of the cities given to the Tribe of Dan (Book of Joshua 19:46), as port-of-entry for the cedars of Lebanon for Solomon's Temple (2 Chronicles 2:16), as the place whence the prophet Jonah embarked for Tarshish (Book of Jonah 1:3) and as port-of-entry for the cedars of Lebanon for the Second Temple of Jerusalem (Book of Ezra 3:7). It was also an important city in the Arab Middle East. During the Crusades, it was the County of Jaffa, a stronghold of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
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Jaffa
Noun
1. a port in western Israel on the Mediterranean; incorporated into Tel Aviv in 1950
(synonym) Joppa, Yafo
(hypernym) city, metropolis, urban center
(part-holonym) Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv-Jaffa


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Jaffa
n. Jaffa, former port city in western Israel which was made a part of Tel Aviv in 1950 (also Yaffa)
 
jaffa (f)
n. Jaffa, variety of orange grown mainly in Israel

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