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("tsarfa'".) Elijah's residence during the drought (-10); belonging to Sidon. A Canaanite, i.e. Phoenician city (). Sarepta in . The name means smelting shop. Now Surafend, a tell or hill, with a small village, seven or eight miles from Sidon, near the Zaharain river. The ancient town however was below on the shore; there, ruins of a flourishing city are found, columns, marble slabs and sarcophagi, and a chapel of the crusaders on the presumed site of the widow's house.