zarephath

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zarephath - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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).