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SEPHARAD

(Heb. sĕpāraḏ)

One of the places of exile for some of the Jews of Jerusalem (Obad. 20). The biblical text, however, does not indicate exactly where this is. Possibilities include Sefarad, a location in modern Spain; a city in Media; and the city of Sardis, capital of the Lydian Empire (Asia Minor) just before Cyrus conquered it in 546. Sepharad was made the center of a Persian satrapy and renamed Sparda (O.Pers.). This lends further support to the idea that Jews may have resided there from the time of the Persian conquests, since the Persians, after Darius, made Sardis/Sparda a major stop on the trade routes from Susa.

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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