כִּנְּרוֹתKinnᵉrôwth
proper name [of a location]: in Galilee (Naphtali)
Pronunciation: kin-ner-oth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3672
Meanings
1. a city (Joshua 19:35; Joshua 13:27; Joshua 11:2)
2. lake near the city (Numbers 34:11; Joshua 13:27; Joshua 12:3)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Numbers 34:11 then down to Riblah on the east side of Ain. From there the boundary will run down along the eastern edge of the Sea of Galilee,
- Deuteronomy 3:17 They also received the Jordan Valley, all the way from the Sea of Galilee down to the Dead Sea, with the Jordan River serving as the western boundary. To the east were the slopes of Pisgah.
- Joshua 11:2 all the kings of the northern hill country; the kings in the Jordan Valley south of Galilee; the kings in the Galilean foothills; the kings of Naphoth-dor on the west;
- Joshua 12:3 Sihon also controlled the Jordan Valley and regions to the east—from as far north as the Sea of Galilee to as far south as the Dead Sea, including the road to Beth-jeshimoth and southward to the slopes of Pisgah.
- Joshua 13:27 In the valley were Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, Zaphon, and the rest of the kingdom of King Sihon of Heshbon. The western boundary ran along the Jordan River, extended as far north as the tip of the Sea of Galilee, and then turned eastward.
- Joshua 19:35 The fortified towns included in this territory were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).