Σάρεπτα

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οὕτω τι βαθὺ καὶ μυστηριῶδες ἡ σιγὴ καὶ νηφάλιον, ἡ δὲ μέθη λάλον → silence is something profound and mysterious and sober, but drunkenness chatters

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English (Strong)

of Hebrew origin (צָרְפַת); Sarepta (i.e. Tsarephath), a place in Palestine: Sarepta.

English (Thayer)

(Tr marginal reading Σαρεφθα; Tdf. in O. T. Σάρεπτα), (צָרְפַת from צָרַף, to smelt; hence, perhaps 'smelting-house'), Σαρεπτων (yet cf. Buttmann, 15 (14); but declined in Obad.), τά; Sarepta (so A. V.; better with O. T. Zarephath) a Phoenician town between Tyre and Sidon, but nearer Sidon (now Surafend; cf. B. D., under the word Smith's Bible Dictionary, Zarephath), (Josephus, Antiquities 8,13, 2 Σαρεφθα): τῆς Σιδωνίας, in the land of Sidon, B. D. as above).