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).
     

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From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Zarephath, ambush of the mouth