Tiberias
“good vision; the navel” Hitchcock's 18691 mention, all in John
Where it is
32.80° N, 35.53° E
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Mentioned most in
Counted from 1 references · STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0
About this place
Tiberias stood on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. Herod Antipas, the ruler of Galilee, built it early in the first century AD and named it after the emperor Tiberius. The Gospels name the city once: after Jesus fed the five thousand, “boats from Tiberias came near to the place where they ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks” (John 6:23). The lake itself is also called the Sea of Tiberias (John 6:1; John 21:1). Jewish tradition holds that the city was built on the site of Rakkath, a fortified city of Naphtali (Joshua 19:35).
Article: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · corrected by Gospel Companion from the verses
Every mention
1 reference, counted from STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · verse text: World English Bible (public domain)
John 1 mention
What the dictionary says
A city, the modern Tubarich, on the western shore of the Sea of Tiberias.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
Read the article →Sources
- Gospel Companion · written from the verses (WEB) for this entry
- Corrected by Gospel Companion · John 6:23 names Tiberias, the city Herod Antipas built; TIPNR filed it under Rakkath of Joshua 19:35, linked to Tiberias only by later Jewish tradition
- Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · Public domain