This document is about Gennesaret (Galilee). For other homonyms, please refer to the Gennesaret document.
[See Galilee region]
The old name for the Galilee region, especially Gennesaret.
Num 34:11The boundary will then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain, and will continue downward to strike the eastern shore of Kinnereth.
Deut 3:17also the Arabah with the Jordan as a border, from Kinnereth even to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, below the slopes of Pisgah on the east.
Josh 13:27and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Heshbon king Sihon, the Jordan and its territory, as far as the end of the Sea of Kinnereth on the east side of the Jordan.