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Γεννησαρέτ

Gennēsarét · G1082 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Gennesaret

    A fertile plain south of Capernaum

    Examples

    Matthew 14:34 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret.

    Mark 6:53 When they had crossed over they came to land at Gennesaret, and moored at the shore.

  2. Gennesaret

    A name for the Lake of Galilee, also called the Lake of Tiberias

    Examples

    Luke 5:1 Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret;

How it’s used In 2 roles

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2 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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Semantic domains 2 entries
Gennesaret93.449a
The proper name of the region on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, as of Jesus and the disciples crossing over and coming to land at Gennesaret in Matthew 14:34 and Mark 6:53.
Gennesaret93.449b
Used of the same place name identifying the lake itself, as of the crowd pressing around Jesus while He stood by the lake of Gennesaret in Luke 5:1.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (so G T Tr WH), Γεννησαρεθ (Lachmann in Mt 14:34) (Γενησαρετ Rec. in Mark 6:58; cf. Tdf.…
(so G T Tr WH), Γεννησαρεθ (Lachmann in Mt 14:34) (Γενησαρετ Rec. in Mark 6:58; cf. Tdf. edition 2 Proleg., p. xxxv., edition 7 Proleg., p. liv. note{3}) (Targums גֲּנֵיסַר or גִּנּוסַר (according to Delitzsch (Römerbr. in d. Hebrew übers., p. 27) גִּנֵּיסַר, גִּנּוּסַר; Γεννησαρ, 1 Macc. 11:67; Josephus, b. j. 2, 20, 6 etc.; Genesara, Pliny, 5, 15), Gennesaret, a very lovely and fertile region on the Sea of Galilee (Josephus, b. j. 3, 10, 7): ἡ γῆ Γεννησαρέτ Mt 14:34; Mk 6:53; ἡ λίμνη Γεννησαρέτ Lk 5:1, anciently כִּנֶּרֶת יָם, Num 34:11, or כִּנֲּרות יָם, Josh 12:3, from the city כִּנֶּרֶת, Deut 3:17, which was near by; called in the Gospels ἡ θάλασσα τῆς Γαλιλαίας, Mk 1:16; Mt 4:18; ἡ θάλασσα τῆς Τιβεριάδος, Jn 6:1; Jn 21:1. The lake, according to Josephus, b. j. 3, 10, 7, is 140 stadia long and 40 wide; (its extreme dimensions now are said to average 12 1/4 miles by 6 3/4 miles, and its level to be nearly 700 feet below that of the Mediterranean). Cf. Rüetschi in Herzog v., p. 6f; Furrer in Schenkel ii., p. 322ff; (Wilson in The Recovery of Jerusalem, Part ii.; Robinson, Phys. Geog. of the Holy Land, p. 199ff; BB. DD. For conjectures respecting the derivation of the word cf. Alex.'s Kitto under the end; Merrill, Galilee in the Time of Christ, § vii.).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Places3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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