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{{Short description|Hebrew name for Spain}}
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'''Sepharad''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɛ|f|ər|æ|d}} {{respell|SEF|ər|ad}}<ref>H. B. Hackett (ed.) ''Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible'', 1877</ref> or {{IPAc-en|s|ə|ˈ|f|ɛər|ə|d}} {{respell|sə|FAIR|əd}};<ref>''The Bible dictionary'', Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1875</ref><ref>William Smith (ed.) ''A Dictionary of the Bible'', 1863</ref> {{Langx|he|סְפָרַד|Səp̄āraḏ}}, {{IPA|he|sfaˈʁad|label=Israeli pronunciation:}}; also ''Sfard'', ''Spharad'', ''Sefarad'', or ''Sephared'') is the [[Hebrew-language]] name for the [[Iberian Peninsula]], consisting of both modern-time Western Europe's [[Spain]] and [[Portugal]], especially in reference to [[Sephardi Jews|the local Jews]] before [[Expulsion of Jews from Spain|their forced expulsion]] from 1492 onwards. In [[modern Hebrew]], the name has mostly come to refer to Spain.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sephardim|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sephardim|access-date=2021-05-11|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref>

==Version comparisons==
* [http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/16182/jewish/Chapter-1.htm Obadiah 1:20 (trans. Judaica Press)]: "And this exiled host of the children of Israel who are [with] the Canaanites as far as Zarephath and the exile of Jerusalem which is in Sepharad shall inherit the cities of the southland"
* [http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Obadiah1.html Obadiah 1:20 (NKJV)]: "And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, that are among the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath, and the captivity of Jerusalem, that is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the South."
* [http://bible.cc/obadiah/1-20.htm Obadiah 1:20 (Vulgate)]: "et transmigratio exercitus huius filiorum Israhel omnia Chananeorum usque ad Saraptham et transmigratio Hierusalem quae in Bosforo est possidebit civitates austri".
* [https://www.ewtn.com/library/SCRIPTUR/abdias.txt Abdias 1:20 (Douay-Rheims)]: "And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel, all the places of the Chanaanites even to Sarepta: and the captivity of Jerusalem that is in Bosphorus, shall possess the cities of the south."
*[[Jerusalem Bible]] (1966): "... and the exiles from Jerusalem now in Sepharad will occupy the towns of the Negeb." An editors' note in the Jerusalem Bible argues that "Sepharad is unknown".<ref>Jerusalem Bible (1966), Footnote aa at Obadiah 1:20</ref>

==See also==
* [[Sephardic law and customs]]
* [[Tzarfat]]

==References==
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==External links==
{{Wiktionary|Sepharad}}
* [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/sephardim Judaism: Sephardim], [https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/  Jewish Virtual Library]
* [http://www.sephardicstudies.org/intro.html Sephardim], [http://www.sephardicstudies.org/intro.html Foundation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture]
* [http://www.rootsofsefarad.com/jews-in-spain Roots of Sefarad], [http://www.rootsofsefarad.com/jews-in-spain Jewish Heritage in Spain and Portugal (travel agency)]
* [http://sefarad.revistas.csic.es Sefarad], Journal on Hebraic, Sephardim and Middle East Studies, [http://www.filol.csic.es ILC], [[Spanish National Research Council|CSIC]] (scientific articles in Spanish, English and other languages)

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