BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H6886
tsa.re.phat — Zarephath
Zarephath = "refinery" a city on the coast south of Sidon and the residence of Elijah during the last part of the drought; modern 'Sura-fend' Also named: Sarepta (Σάρεπτα "Zarephath" G4558)
3 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4558
Sarepta — Zarephath
Σάρεπτα, -ων (Ob 20), τά (Heb. צָרְפַת), Sarepta, a city of Sidon: Luk.4:26.† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →Smelting-shop, “a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals”, a small Phoenician town, now Surafend, about a mile from the coast, almost midway on the road between Tyre and Sidon. Here Elijah sojourned with a poor widow during the “great famine,” when the “heaven was shut up three years and six months” (Luke 4:26; 1 Kings 17:10). It is called Sarepta in the New Testament (Luke 4:26).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
