STRONGS G4558:
Σάρεπτα (
Tr marginal reading
Σαρεφθα;
Tdf. in O. T.
Σάρεπτα), (
צָרְפַת from
צָרַף, to smelt; hence, perhaps 'smelting-house'),
Σαρεπτων (yet cf.
Buttmann, 15 (14); but declined in Obad.),
τά;
Sarepta (so
A. V.; better with O. T.
Zarephath) a Phoenician town between Tyre and Sidon, but nearer Sidon (now Surafend; cf.
B. D., under the word ), (
1 Kings 17:9;
Obadiah 1:20; in
Josephus, Antiquities 8, 13, 2
Σαρεφθα):
τῆς Σιδωνίας, in the land of Sidon,
Luke 4:26. Cf. Robinson, Palestine 2:474ff; (
B. D. as above).
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