| | | | of the Dead Sea. | | | | =ZAREPHATH= |1 Kings xvii. |_Sarafend_ | 2 |‘Not far from Sidon and | 9, 10; | | | Tyre.’ (Josephus Ant. | Obadiah 20 | | | viii. 13, § 2). ‘On | | | | the shore of Sarepta.’ | | | | (Sancta Paula.) ‘It | | | | lay on the public | | | | road’ (coast road), | | | | Jerome (Onomasticon). | | | | Now the village | | | | and ruins south of | | | | Sidon. Original name | | | | Misrephoth-maim, which | | | | see. In the N.T. | | | | (Sarepta), Luke iv. 26 | | | | (A.V.) Zarephath (R.V.) | | | | =ZARETAN= (R.V. |Josh. iii. 16 | | |A city beside Adam = =ZARETHAN=) | | | | Zarthan, which see. | | | | Adam is possibly ‘Tell | | | | Damieh.’ | | | | =ZARETH-SHAHAR= |Josh. xiii. 19|_Zara_, or |14 |‘In the mount of the (R.V. =ZERETH- | | _Sara_ (?) | | valley.’ Thought to SHABAR=) | | | | be the heap of ruins | | | | called Zara or Sara on | | | | a hill on the south | | | | side of the great | | | | gorge of Wâdy Zerka | | | | Mʾaîn, near where it | | | | joins the Salt Sea. | | | | =ZARTANAH= |1 Kings iv. 12|_Not |10 |‘Beneath Jezreel.’ (R.V. | | identified_ | | Perhaps the same as =ZARETHAN=) | | | | Zererath, of Judg. | | | | vii. 22. Probably a | | | | separate town from | | | | Zarthan (‘in the | | | | plain’), Zeredath | | | | (‘in the plain’), | | | | and Zaretan (‘a city