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Joppa

Ancient name of Jaffa, a port in west Israel.
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What seems most singular and suggestively important in this story, is this: it was from Joppa that Jonah set sail.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
How being an anointed pilot-prophet, or speaker of true things, and bidden by the Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the ears of a wicked nineveh, jonah, appalled at the hostility he should raise, fled from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God by taking ship at Joppa.
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