Sychar
si'-kar (Suchar): Mentioned only once, in connection with
the visit of Jesus to Jacob's Well (Jn 4:5). He was passing
through Samaria on His way to Galilee, "so he cometh to a
city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground
that Jacob gave to his son Joseph: and Jacob's well was
there." Jerome thought the name was a clerical error...
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a place named only in Joh 4:5 Sychar was either a name
applied to the town of Shechem or it was an independent place.
The first of these alternatives is now almost universally
accepted. [SHECHEM]...
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liar or drunkard (see Isa. 28:1, 7), has been from the time of
the Crusaders usually identified with Sychem or
Shechem (John
4:5). It has now, however, as the result of recent
explorations,
been identified with 'Askar, a small Samaritan town on
the
southern base of Ebal, about a mile to the north of
Jacob's
well....
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John 4:5. Shechem or Nablus (Jerome Quaest. Genesis 48:22)
corrupted into Sichem, Sychar. Some think it an intentional
corruption, as if from sheker "falsehood," or shikor
"drunkard" (Isaiah 28:1; Isaiah 28:7), due to Jewish bigotry
against the Samaritans. It is objected that Jacob's well at
the entrance into the valley is a mile and a half fr...
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Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar,
near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son
Joseph....
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