Easton's Bible Dictionary: M. G. Easton, M.A., D.D.
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" (Lk. 4:26; 1 Ki. 17:10). It is called Sarepta in the New Testament (Lk. 4:26).