Dict: smith - SEPHAR

smith:

SEPHAR - S>@ - (a numbering). It is written after the enumeration of the sons of Joktan, "And their dwelling was from Mesha as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east." kjv@Genesis:10:30) The Joktanites occupied the southwestern portion of the peninsula of Arabia. The undoubted identifications of Arabian places and tribes with their Joktanite originals are included within these limits, and point to Sephar, on the shore of the Indian Ocean, as the eastern boundary. The ancient seaport town called Zafar represents the biblical site or district.

SEPHARAD - S>@ - (separated), a name which occurs in (Obadiah kjv@1:20) only. Its situation has always been a matter of uncertainty.

SEPHARVAIM - S>@ - (the two Sipparas) is mentioned by Sennacherib in his letter to Hezekiah as a city whose king had been unable to resist the Assyrians. ( kjv@2Kings:19:13; kjv@Isaiah:37:13) comp. 2Kin 18:34 It is identified with the famous town of Sippara., on the Euphrates above Babylon, which was near the site of the modern Mosaib. The dual form indicates that there were two Sipparas, one on either side of the river. Berosus celled Sippara "a city of the sun;" and in the inscriptions it bears the same title, being called Tsipar sha Shamas , or "Sippara of the Sun"
the sun being the chief object of worship there. Comp. ( kjv@2Kings:17:31)