- Gennesaret, Lake of
- geographical name — see galilee (Sea of)
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Gennesaret, Lake of
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Gennesaret, Lake of — An alternative used in Luke 5:1 for the Sea of Galilee … Dictionary of the Bible
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Lake of Gennesaret — geographical name see Galilee, Sea of … New Collegiate Dictionary
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Bethsaida — House of fish. 1) A town in Galilee, on the west side of the sea of Tiberias, in the land of Gennesaret. It was the native place of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, and was frequently resorted to by Jesus (Mark 6:45; John 1:44; 12:21). It is… … Easton's Bible Dictionary
Sea of Galilee — ) or Sea of Gennesaret [ Complete Gospels , Robert J. Miller editor, 1992, translation note to Mark 4:35 41: ...Mark calls this lake the sea , using a word ( thalassa ) that most Greek writers reserve for the much larger Mediterranean (Luke uses… … Wikipedia
