Bible Location
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The sea of Chinnereth is the older biblical name for the lake later known as the Sea of Galilee. It is important because it preserves an earlier layer of naming for one of the Bible's central northern waters. First appears in Num 34:11.1
AI summary: The sea of Chinnereth matters because names preserve history. In older texts the lake is tied to the Chinnereth region and helps define the eastern and northern landscape long before Gospel-era naming became dominant. The cross references present the sea of Chinnereth as the early biblical identity of Galilee's great lake.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.