צָרְפַתTsârᵉphath
proper name [of a location]: on coast south of Sidon (1 Kings 17:9; Obadiah 1:20; 1 Kings 17:10)
Pronunciation: tsaq-ref-ath' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6886
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 3 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 17:9 “Go and live in the village of Zarephath, near the city of Sidon. I have instructed a widow there to feed you.”
- 1 Kings 17:10 So he went to Zarephath. As he arrived at the gates of the village, he saw a widow gathering sticks, and he asked her, “Would you please bring me a little water in a cup?”
- Obadiah 1:20 The exiles of Israel will return to their land and occupy the Phoenician coast as far north as Zarephath. The captives from Jerusalem exiled in the north will return home and resettle the towns of the Negev.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).