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mention the lake by the name "Sea of Ginosar" after the small fertile plain of Ginosar that lies at the foot of Tell el-'Oreimeh, ancient Kinneret. Josephus refers to the area as having very rich soil.
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An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, Coptic and Semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II
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The name has also been used for the "Plain of Gennesaret", which stretches south of the ancient city. The plain's modern names are Plain of Ginosar in Hebrew and el-Ghuweir in Arabic.
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The Plain of Gennesaret marked on an 1850 German map of the Sea of Galilee as "El-Ghuweir / Genezareth" (western shore, stretching from "
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offers a very different etymology, by stating that the initial Hebrew name 'Kinneret', in the plural 'Kinnerot', was
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Tel Kinrot page on the website of the "Kinneret Regional Project" international archaeological expedition
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derives its name from the ancient town, though it is not located on its precise site. The settlements of
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Sites involved in the 13th–11th century BCE archaeological phenomenon of the Israelite Settlement
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Another Talmud passage says that it is so-called because its fruits are as sweet as those of the
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is being excavated as part of a large archaeological project which is ongoing since 2002.
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city of Kinneret is identified with the mound known in Arabic as Tell el-'Oreimeh and in
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New settlements at previously unoccupied sites in late 13th/early 12th centuries
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to Gennesaret, with Ginosar as yet another transformation of the Hebrew name.
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And having passed the water, they came into the country of Genesar. (
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at carta-jerusalem.com, 15 May 2012. retrieved 18 December 2021.
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Due to its prominence, the city gave its name to the lake (the "
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The Physical Geography, Geology, and Meteorology of the Holyand
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are even further south, on the southwestern shore of the lake.
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sees the origin of 'Ginosar' in a combination of Hebrew words,
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New settlements at long deserted sites in 12th/11th centuries
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trees which grow in its vicinity, explained by lexicographer
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As other places around the lake rose to prominence, such as
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Tel Kinrot (the mound behind the field) from northwest
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Chinneroth

Kinneret (archaeological site) is located in Israel
32°51′38″N 35°30′26″E / 32.86056°N 35.50722°E / 32.86056; 35.50722
Hebrew
Bronze
Iron Age
Sea of Galilee
Aqhat Epic
Ugarit
Old Testament
New Testament
Hebrew
Arabic
Modern Hebrew
Jerusalem Talmud
M. Jastrow
Ziziphus spina-christi
Moses Margolies
Adrian Room
valley
branch
Easton's Bible Dictionary
Grecized
Sea of Galilee
Tiberias
Qasr al-Minya
Arabic
kibbutz
Ginosar

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