Bible Names

Sepharad: meaning of the name

Sepharad means “a book descending.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Sepharad in Hebrew and Greek

סְפָרָד H5614

Çᵉphârâd (sef-aw-rawd') — Sepharad, a region of Assyria

of foreign derivation;

Places named Sepharad

Sepharad in Scripture

“Sepharad” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.

  • Obadiah 1:20

    And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.