JOPPE (anc. geogr.), a town of Samaria, on the Mediterranean, situate in a plain (1 Macc. x.), in the tribe of Ephraim (Josh. xvi.). Here Andromeda is fabled to have been bound and exposed to the sea-monster, and delivered by Perseus. Now Yaffa, a port-town of Palestine. E. Long. 36. o. N. Lat. 32. 20.