SEPHARAD

(Se·pharʹad).

A place from which Jerusalem’s exiles were due to return. (Ob 20) Its exact location is unknown, but of several suggestions a likely possibility is Saparda, mentioned in certain Assyrian annals as a territory of Media. The Assyrians once exiled people of Israel’s northern kingdom to “cities of the Medes.”​—2Ki 17:5, 6.