Lake of Gennesaret

We are all taken to a van and then driven to the Sea of Galilee (Bahira Tibria in Arabic), also called the Lake of Gennesaret, Lake Kinneret, the largest freshwater lake situated deep in the Jordan Great Rift Valley (which appeared through the separation of the African and Arabian Plates).

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But he stood on that bright summer day close by the beautiful Lake of Gennesaret in Galilee, wishing over and over that he could do something that was more worth while.

Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens

He was a young man back by the Lake of Gennesaret, and looked up to see

The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

It is on the road from Jerusalem to Damascus, about 5 miles from the Jordan, and 14 from the south end of the Lake of Gennesaret.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

It is no longer found in Egypt, but grows luxuriantly in Palestine, in the marshes of the Huleh, and in the swamps at the north end of the Lake of Gennesaret.

Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

When he turned back to the platform he found that Robert, with Mackay's help, had hung on a screen to his right, four or five large drawings of Nazareth, of the Lake of Gennesaret, of Jerusalem, and the Temple of Herod, of the ruins of that synagogue on the probable site of Capernaum in which conceivably Jesus may have stood.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

When he turned back to the platform he found that Robert, with Mackay's help, had hung on a screen to his right, four or five large drawings of Nazareth, of the Lake of Gennesaret, of Jerusalem, and the Temple of Herod, of the ruins of that synagogue on the probable site of Capernaum in which conceivably Jesus may have stood.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

The plant must have been a conspicuous object on the shores of the Lake of Gennesaret, (Matthew 6: 28; Luke 12: 27) it must have flourished in the deep broad valleys of Palestine,

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

(Matthew 23: 27) + Ship-building must have been exercised to some extent for the fishing-vessels on the Lake of Gennesaret.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

+ The name by which the Hebrews designated, generally, the country lying to the northeast of Palestine; the great mass of that high tableland which, rising with sudden abruptness from the Jordan and the very margin of the Lake of Gennesaret, stretched at an elevation of no less than 2000 feet above the level of the sea, to the banks of the Euphrates itself.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884