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From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Zarephath
    smelting-shop, "a workshop for the refining and smelting of
    metals", a small Phoenician town, now Surafend, about a mile
    from the coast, almost midway on the road between Tyre and
    Sidon. Here Elijah sojourned with a poor widow during the "great
    famine," when the "heaven was shut up three years and six
    months" (Luke 4:26; 1 Kings 17:10). It is called Sarepta in the
    New Testament (Luke 4:26).

From: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

 Zarephath, ambush of the mouth