Place · City
Gennesaret
Named in 3 verses across 3 books, first in Luke 5:1.
In the Bible
All 1 verse in Luke, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
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 29Healing in Gennesaret
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.