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Kinneret

also known as: Chinnereth, Chinneroth, Cinnereth, Chinnereth, Tel Kinrot, Tell Kinneret

Meaning: a harp

This is one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Joshua 19:35; compare Deuteronomy 3:17).

It also denotes, apparently, a district which may have taken its name from the adjacent city or lake of Gennesaret, in more ancient times called “the sea of Chinnereth,” and was probably that enclosed district north of the city of Tiberias afterward called “the plain of Gennesaret.”

Cinnereth is also called Chinneroth (Joshua 11:2).

The phrase “all Cinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali” in 1 Kings 15:20 is parallel to “the store-houses of the cities of Naphtali” (Revised King James Version marginal note) in 2 Chronicles 16:4.

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