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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