Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(beauty), now Jaffa, a town on the southwest coast of Palestine, in the portion of Dan. (Joshua 19:46) Having a harbor attached to it—though always, as still, a dangerous one—it became the port of Jerusalem in the days of Solomon, and has been ever since. ” Here, on the house-top of Simon the tanner, “by the seaside,” St. Peter had his vision of tolerance. (Acts 11:5) The existing town contains about 4000 inhabitants.
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