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  • The original, near Sidon, goes by the name Sarepta today.

    Archaeology, Names, and Words 2009

  • Lebanon was once known as Sarepta, a Phoenician port where the art of blowing down a thin hollow tube to shape glass was invented more than 2,000 years ago.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • Dean Stanley moreover noticed a Mussulman chapel sic on the sea-shore near Sarafend, the ancient Sarepta, dedicated to El Khouder, in which there is no tomb inside, only hangings before a recess.

    Dove's Eye View: 2007

  • Dean Stanley moreover noticed a Mussulman chapel sic on the sea-shore near Sarafend, the ancient Sarepta, dedicated to El Khouder, in which there is no tomb inside, only hangings before a recess.

    Legends of St. George 2007

  • Ye do not think upon Daniel and the bearer of the mess of boiled pottage, nor recollect Elijah who was delivered from hunger once in the desert by angels, again in the torrent by ravens, and again in Sarepta by the widow, through the divine bounty, which gives to all flesh their meat in due season.

    The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

  • But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • And eight mile from Tyre, toward the east, upon the sea, is the city of Sarphen, in Sarepta of Sidonians.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • In imagination, all fancied that they could see an old man, a flight of ravens above his head, standing before an altar, which a flash of lightning illumined, revealing the idolatrous priests that were thrown into the torrent; and the women, sitting in the galleries, thought of the widow of Sarepta.

    Herodias 2003

  • 'Sarepta that belongs to Zidon' may be the scene of the affair.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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