SEFARAD
Place of captivity of the Jews, but from where they would come to possess “the cities of the Negev [or the south]” (Abd. 20).
Identifications have been made with Sardis or Sparda, and with the Shaparda of Media mentioned in Sargon’s documents. He deported Israelites to cities in Media (2 Kings 17:6).
There is no known relationship between this Sepharad and Spain, which the Jews call by the same name.