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Chinnereth
Lyre, the singular form of the word (Deut 3:17; Josh 19:35), which is also used in the plural form, Chinneroth, the name of a fenced city which stood near the shore of the lake of Galilee, a little to the south of Tiberias. The town seems to have given its name to a district, as appears from 1 Kgs 15:20, where the plural form of the word is used.
The Sea of Chinnereth (Num 34:11; Josh 13:27), or of Chinneroth (Josh 12:1–24: 3), was the “lake of Gennesaret” or “sea of Tiberias” (Deut 3:17; Josh 11:2). Chinnereth was probably an ancient Canaanitish name adopted by the Israelites into their language.
Named in the Bible
4 verses
- Numbers 34:11 And the coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall descend, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward:
- Deuteronomy 3:17 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah eastward.
- Joshua 13:27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
- Joshua 19:35 And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
