This is the name of the place Zarephath: A Phoenician city where Elijah stayed with a widow.
Definition
from H6884; refinement; Tsarephath, a place in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Zarephath.
Traditional renderings: Zarephath.
Glossary entries
Where it occurs
Occurrences
3 total
- 1 Kings 17:9צָרְפַ֙תָה֙ · to Zarephath“Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
- 1 Kings 17:10צָרְפַ֗תָה · to ZarephathSo Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering sticks. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup, so that I may drink.”
- Obadiah 1:20צָ֣רְפַ֔ת · far as ZarephathAnd the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.