Safed, a town of Palestine, 12 m. N. of Tiberias, occupied principally by Jews attracted thither in part by the expectation that the Messiah, when He appears, will establish His kingdom there; it spreads in horse-shoe fashion round the foot of a hill 2700 ft. high; is a seat of Hebrew learning.
Population (circa 1900) given as 17,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Sadowa * Safety Lamp