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Sepharad

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

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SEPHARAD . A country in which was a community of exiles from Judah in the days of the prophet Obadiah ( Obadiah 1:20 ). It is probably to be understood as Sparda ( Çparda ), a Persian province of Asia Minor, not definitely treated in its earliest use, but in the time of the Seleucidæ employed for Asia Minor as a whole. Cf. Obadiah, p. 664 b .

J. F. McCurdy.

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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Sepharad'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​hdb/​s/sepharad.html. 1909.
 
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