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zarephath |
2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Zarephath 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). From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Zarephath, ambush of the mouth
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