Gennesaret

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Gennesaret
     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}.)
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Gennesaret, garden of the prince