King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H5614
Transliteration: Sephared
Phonetic Spelling: (sef-aw-rawd')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: the location of some exiles
Meaning: Sepharad -- the location of some exiles
Word Summary
Sephared: the location of some exiles
Original Word: סְפָרָדTransliteration: Sephared
Phonetic Spelling: (sef-aw-rawd')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Short Definition: the location of some exiles
Meaning: Sepharad -- the location of some exiles
Strong's Concordance
Sepharad Of foreign derivation; Sepharad, a region of Assyria -- Sepharad.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H5614. Sephared
[סְפָרֵד?], סְפָרַ֑ד proper name, of a location Obadiah 20 ᵐ5 Εφραθα, Qa Σαφαραδ; location dubious; SpiegAPK 242 NöZMG xxxiii (1879), 323 CheFounders 312 SayMonuments 483 and others compare Sparda in Asia Minor (= Sardis ? Behistuni, 15 Persep. I:12 NRa 28); SchrCOT on the passage (compare KGF 116 ff.) DlPar 249, compare GASm12Proph. ii. 176, compare Šaparda in southwest Media (time of Sargon); a Saparda also northeast from Nineveh (Esarhaddon's time), compare KnudtzonAss. Gebete, Nos. 8, 11, 30.