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