SAREPTA
See ZAREPHATH.
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Sarepta
A titular see in Phoenicia Prima, suffragan of Tyre. It is mentioned for the first time in the voyage of an Egyptian in the fourteenth century B.C. Chabas, “Voyage d’un Egyptien” (Châlons, 1866), 20, 161, 163. Abdias (i,20), says it was the northern boundary of Chanaan. Sennacherib captured it in 701 B.C. (Schrader, “Die Keilinschriften und das Alte Testament”, 1883, 200, and 288). We learn from III Kings, xvii, 8-24, that it was subject to Sidon in the time of Achab and that the Prophet Elias, after having multiplied the meal and oil of a poor woman, raised her son from the dead; the charity of this widow was recalled by Our Saviour (Luke 4:26). It was probably near this place that Christ cured the daughter of the Chanaanite or Syro-phoenician woman whose faith He praised (Mark 7:24-30). Sarepta is mentioned also by Josephus, “Ant. jud.”, VIII, xiii, 2; Pliny, “Hist. natur.”, V, 17; the “Itinerarium Burdigalense; the “Onomasticon” of Eusebius and St. Jerome; by Theodosius and Pseudo-Antoninus who, in the sixth century calls it a small town, but very Christian (Geyer, “Intinera hierosolymitana”, Vienna, 1898, 18, 147, 150). It contained at that time a church dedicated to St. Elias. The “Notitia episcopatuum” of Antioch in the sixth century, speaks of Sarepta as a suffragan see of Tyre (Echos d’Orient, X, 145); none of its bishops are known. Some Latin bishops, but merely titulars, are mentioned after 1346 (Eubel, “Hierarchia catholica medii aevi”, I, 457; II, 253; III, 310; “Revue benedictine”, XXI, 281, 345-53, 353-65; XXIV, 72). In 1185, the Green monk Phocas (De locis sanctis, 7) found the town almost in its ancient condition; a century later, according to Burchard, it was in ruins and contained only seven or eight houses (Descriptio Terrae sanctae, II, 9). Today, Sarepta is known as Khirbet Sarfend, between Tyre and Sidon, on the seashore; the ruins show that the town extended 1800 metres north and south, but that it was not very wide.
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SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geog., S.V.; RENAN , Mission de Phénicie (Paris, 1864), 663-66; VIGOUROUX in Dict. de la Bible, S.V.; GUÉRIN, Description de la Palestine. Galilée, II (Paris, 1880), 478-81. Transcribed by Ed Sayre
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIIICopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Sarepta
(; Vulg. Sarepta; Syriac, Tsarpath), the Greek form of the name which in the Hebrew text of the Old Test. appears as ZAREPHATH SEE ZAREPHATH (q.v.). The place is designated by the same formula on its single occurrence in the New Test. (Luk 4:26) that it is when first mentioned in the Sept. version of 1Ki 17:9, Sarepta of Sidonia.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Sarepta
(Luke 4:26). See ZAREPHATH.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Sarepta
The Old Testament ZAREPHATH. Luk 4:26.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Sarepta
SAREPTA.See Zarephath.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Sarepta
SAREPTA.See Zarephath.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Sarepta
sa-repta (, Sarepta): The name in Luk 4:26 the King James Version, following the Greek, of the Phoenician town to which Elijah was sent in the time of the great famine, in order to save the lives of a widow and her son (1Ki 17:9, 1Ki 17:10). The Revised Version (British and American) adopts the form of the name based upon the Hebrew, and as found in the Old Testament: ZAREPHATH (which see).
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Sarepta
Sarepta (Luk 4:26), Hebrew Zarephath, a Phoenician town between Tyre and Sidon, mentioned in 1Ki 17:9-10; Oba 1:20. It is the place where Elijah went to dwell, and where he performed the miracle of multiplying the barrel of meal and cruse of oil, and where he raised the widow’s son to life. It still subsists as a large village, under the name of Sarafend.
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Sarepta
[Sarep’ta]
The village to which Elias was sent to succour a poor widow. Luk 4:26. Called ZAREPHATH in 1Ki 17:9. Identified with Sarafend, 33 27′ N, 35 18′ E: it is near the sea, about midway between Tyre and Sidon.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Sarepta
G4558
See Zarephath
Zarephath
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Sarepta
Sarep’ta. See Zarephath.