Sepharad
   (Obad. 1:20), some locality unknown. The modern Jews think that
   Spain is meant, and hence they designate the Spanish Jews
   "Sephardim," as they do the German Jews by the name
   "Ashkenazim," because the rabbis call Germany Ashkenaz. Others
   identify it with Sardis, the capital of Lydia. The Latin father
   Jerome regarded it as an Assyrian word, meaning "boundary," and
   interpreted the sentence, "which is in Sepharad," by "who are
   scattered abroad in all the boundaries and regions of the
   earth." Perowne says: "Whatever uncertainty attaches to the word
   Sepharad, the drift of the prophecy is clear, viz., that not
   only the exiles from Babylon, but Jewish captives from other and
   distant regions, shall be brought back to live prosperously
   within the enlarged borders of their own land."

	

	Sepharad, a book descending