CHINNERETH.A city (Deu_3:17, Jos_11:2 [in latter spelt Chinneroth] Jos_19:35) which gave its name to the Sea of Chinnereth (Num_34:11, Jos_12:3; Jos_13:27), the OT designation of the Sea of Galilee. The site of the town is uncertain, but it follows Rakkath (probably Tiberias), and may have been in the plain of Gennesaret (cf. 1Ki_15:20).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
Chin'nereth. (circuit). Accurately Cinnareth, a fortified city in the tribe of Naphtali, Jos_19:35 only, of which no trace is found in later writers, and no remains by travellers.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863
Chinnereth was another name for Gennesaret. It applied both to the Lake of Gennesaret (the Sea of Galilee) and to the small Plain of Gennesaret on the lakes western shore (Num_34:11; Jos_19:35; Luk_5:1). For fuller details see PALESTINE, sub-heading Upper Jordan and Sea of Galilee.
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary by Don Fleming
PRINTER 1990.
Chinnereth
(Hebrews Kinne´reth, כַּנֶּרֶת; in pause Kinna´reth [Josh.], כַּנָּרֶת; Sept. Χενέρεθ v. r. [in Deuteromomy] Μαχαναρέθ), the sing. form (Deu_3:17; Jos_19:35) of a town, also called in the plur. CHINNEROTH (Hebrews Kinneroth, כַּנְּרוֹת, 1Ki_15:20; Sept. Χενέρεθ; A. V. "Cinneroth;" or Kinnaroth', כַּנֲּרוֹת, Jos_11:2, Χενερώθ); or perhaps the latter form designates the region of which the other was the metropolis. A similar variety appears in the name of the adjoining lake, which is perhaps intended in some of the above passages. The town was a fortified city in the tribe of Naphtali, mentioned between Rakkath and Adamah (Jos_19:35), the only certain reference to the city exclusively. Whether it gave its name to or received it from the lake, which was possibly adjacent, is uncertain. Jerome identifies Chennereth (Onomast. s.v., Eusebius Χενερώθ) with the later Tiberias. This may have been from some tradition then existing: the only corroboration which we can find for it is the mention in Joshua of Hammath as near it, which was possibly the Emmaus (modern Hummain), near the shore of the lake, a little south of Tiberias. This situation of Chinnlereth is denied by Reland (Palest. p. 161) on the ground that Capernaum is said by Matthew (Mat_4:13) to have been on the very borders of Zebulun and Naphtali, and that Zebulun was to the south of Naphtali. But the evangelist's expression hardly requires this strict interpretation. The town, or the lake, appears to have given its name (slightly altered) to a district "all Cinneroth" (1Ki_15:20). SEE CINNERETH.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
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