noun · feminine
gennēsaret
Strong’sG1082
Gennesaret
stem gennēsaret-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
Γεννησαρέτ (Rec. Γενησ-, Mk, l.c.; Targ. גְּנֵיסַר),
[in LXX: Γεννησάρ (as in some MSS. Mt, Mk), I Mac 11:67 *;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1082 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidghen-nay-sar-et'
Gennesaret (i.e. Kinnereth), a lake and plain in Palestine
Fromof Hebrew origin (compare );
King JamesGennesaret.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
[in LXX: Γεννησάρ (as in some MSS. Mt, Mk),
Gennesaret, a fertile plain on W. shore of the Sea of Galilee; ἡ γῆ,
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | gennēsaret | gennēsaret |
| object accusative | gennēsaret2×Γεννησαρέτ | gennēsaret |
| direct address vocative | gennēsaret | gennēsaret |
| of, belonging to genitive | gennēsaret1×Γεννησαρὲτ | gennēsaret |
| to, for dative | gennēsaret | gennēsaret |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
gennēsaret“Gennesaret”objectaccusative singular2×
Matthew 14:34… diaperarantois erchala epi tan gēan eis Gennēsaret.… had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret.
Mark 6:53… diaperarantois epi tan gēan erchala eis Gennēsaret kai prosormizila.… had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret and moored the boat.
gennēsaret“Gennesaret”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Luke 5:1… autos ate stēarēntos para tan limnan Gennēsaret,… was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret with the crowd pressing in on …