ספרד

Attested as early as Obadiah 1:20. Since the late 2nd century, "Sepharad" became associated with a faraway place, and in the 8th century, Jewish people began to use this name to refer to Spain due to its distant location.^[1]

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /sfaˈʁad/

• Audio (Israel):

  (file)

סְפָרַד • (s'farád) f

1. (Biblical Hebrew) A Biblical location of uncertain identification, possibly Sardis; Sepharad.
2. (Medieval Hebrew, Modern Israeli Hebrew) Spain (a country in Southern Europe, including most of the Iberian peninsula)

• אסְפַּמְיָה ("Aspamiah", another medieval Jewish name for Spain)

• סְפָרַדִּי (s'faradí)

• H5614 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible