Zaraphath
zar'-e-fath (tsarephath; Sarepta): The Sidonian town in
which Elijah was entertained by a widow after he left the
brook Cherith (1 Ki 17:9 ff). Obadiah refers to it as a
Canaanite (probably meaning Phoenicia) town (Ob 1:20). It
appears in the Greek form Sarepta in Lk 4:26 (the King James
Version), and is said to be in the land of Sidon. Joseph...
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(A city between Tyre and Sidon)
-Elijah performs two miracles in
1Ki 17:8-24
-Called SAREPTA (A. V.) in
Lu 4:26...
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(smelting place), the residence of the prophet Elijah during
the latter part of the drought. 1Ki 17:9,10 It was near to, or
dependent on, Zidon. It is represented by the modern village
of Sura-fend. Of the old town considerable indications remain.
One group of foundations is on a headland called Ain el-
Kanatarah; but the chief remains are sout...
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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...
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("tsarfa'".) Elijah's residence during the drought (1 Kings
17:9-10); belonging to Sidon. A Canaanite, i.e. Phoenician
city (Obadiah 1:20). Sarepta in Luke 4:26. The name means
smelting shop. Now Surafend, a tell or hill, with a small
village, seven or eight miles from Sidon, near the Zaharain
river. The ancient town however was below on the s...
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And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel
[shall possess] that of the Canaanites, [even] unto Zarephath;
and the captivity of Jerusalem, which [is] in Sepharad, shall
possess the cities of the south....
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Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which [belongeth] to Zidon, and
dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to
sustain thee....
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So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the
gate of the city, behold, the widow woman [was] there
gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me,
I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink....
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