Sarepta

sa-rep'-ta (Sarepta): The name inLu 4:26the 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 17:9,10). 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).