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