Gennesaret in Easton's Bible Dictionary
a garden of riches. (1.) A town of Naphtali, called
Chinnereth
(Josh. 19:35), sometimes in the plural form Chinneroth
(11:2).
In later times the name was gradually changed to
Genezar and
Gennesaret (Luke 5:1). This city stood on the western
shore of
the lake to which it gave its name. No trace of it
remains. The
plain of Gennesaret has been called, from its
fertility and
beauty, "the Paradise of Galilee." It is now called
el-Ghuweir.
(2.) The Lake of Gennesaret, the Grecized form of
CHINNERETH
(q.v.). (See GALILEE, SEA OF -T0001418.)
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