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Zaraphath in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("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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Zaraphath in Hitchcock's Bible Names

ambush of the mouth...

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Zaraphath Scripture - Obediah 1:20

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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Zaraphath Scripture - 1 Kings 17:9

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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Zaraphath in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Zaraphath Scripture - 1 Kings 17:10

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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Zaraphath in Naves Topical Bible

(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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Zaraphath in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Zaraphath in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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