Gennesaret Plain
Place designating a lake and a plain.
Description[edit | edit source]
In the work of Maria Valtorta, this name mainly refers to the lake (also called the Sea of Tiberias, the Sea of Galilee, or the sea) as well as a large riverside plain 10 km north of Tiberias, the city founded by Herod the Great in 20 AD. Some passages might suggest that it also designates a fishing village of which nothing more is known.
Notable facts[edit | edit source]
None, but this name refers to the Sea of Tiberias.
Its name[edit | edit source]
גינוסר (Ginosar), כנרת (Kinnereth)[1].
This place derives its name from the lute or harp (Kinnor, kinnowr) which evokes the general shape of the lake. The original Callation Kinnereth gave the Greek form Genésareth. A modern Kibbutz (Ginosar, Kinereth) was established near the supposed site of this village which no archaeological findings have yet located.
This place is therefore designated under the following spellings:
Kinnéret, Kinnereth {kin-neh'-reth}, Kinarot, Kinerot, Chinnereth, Tell Kinneret, Chinneroth, Cinneroth, Cénéroth or Cénéreth (Crampon).
Gennesaret, Guénnésareth, Gennesaret Plain, Gennésareth, Greek forms retained by most Bibles.
Guennésar (Gérard Dictionary) - Gennesar (Vulgate) – Guinéissar (Chouraqui) – Ginosar or Ginnosar (modern).
Where is it mentioned in the work?[edit | edit source]
Gennesaret Plain designates the lake:
GRM 37 GRM 58 GRM 64 GRM 80
GRM 122 GRM 160 GRM 174
GRM 275 GRM 298
GRM 319 GRM 346 GRM 349
GRM 508 GRM 521
This name designates a plain:
GRM 273
GRM 456
This name may designate a hamWater:
GRM 25
GRM 104 GRM 158
GRM 503
Learn more about this place[edit | edit source]
In the Old Testament, it is a border town mentioned in Deuteronomy 3:17, Numbers 34:11, Joshua 13:27; 19:36, 1 Kings 15:20, etc. Repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, it reappears in the Greek period where it then gives its name to the lake.
It was in this region that Jonathan Maccabee camped before attacking Demetrius' army in the plain of Asor, in 144 BC.[2].
With the construction of Tiberias by Herod the Great (17-22 AD), the common name of the lake tends to change. Some biblical scholars suppose that the location of Gennesaret Plain coincides with Tiberias. They rely on the interchangeable denomination for this. Others, on the contrary, consider them distinct places. The latter hypothesis seems more plausible.
In the New Testament, the lake, often mentioned, is alternately called “lake of Gennesaret Plain,” “lake of Tiberias,” “lake of Galilee,” or “the sea”: Matthew 4:13 and 18; 8:24-27 and 32; 13:1; 14:25-26 and 34; 15:29, Mark 1:16; 2:13; 3:7; 4:1, 39 and 41; 5:1, 13 and 21; 6:48-49 and 53; 7:31, Luke 5:1; 8:22-23 and 33, John 6:1 and 16-19; 21:1.
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Note: Quotations from the work of Maria Valtorta on this page currently use machine-translated text and will gradually be replaced by the official English translation. Until then, the official translation may be consulted through the reference link provided with each quotation.