Zarephath
Zarephath, a Phoenician city between Tyre and Sidon, where Elijah stayed with a widow during a famine and performed miracles.
The name Zarephath means “ambush of the mouth”
PlaceOld & New Testaments3 books4 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at 1 Kings 17:9; referred to as Zarephath (צָֽרְפַת) or Zarephath (Σάρεπτα).
Location
- Identified as
- Sarepta
- Certainty
- Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 33.464° N, 35.295° E
Glossary entries
Alternative names
Mentions
- “Get up and go to Zarephath of Sidon, and stay there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to provide for you.”
- So 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.”
- And 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.
- Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to the widow of Zarephath in Sidon.