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Place · City

Gennesaret

Named in 3 verses across 3 books, first in Matthew 14:34.

In the Bible

All 3 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Matthew

Matthew 14:34
When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret.

Mark

Mark 6:53
When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and moored the boat.

Luke

Luke 5:1
On one occasion, while Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret with the crowd pressing in on Him to hear the word of God,

Events here

Events the dataset sets at Gennesaret. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

c. AD 29
Healing in GennesaretMatthew 14:34 – Mark 6:56

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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.