כִּנֶּ֫רֶת
Chinneroth
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3672 appears — 7 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Numbers 1 verse
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Joshua 4 verses
- Joshua 11:2 כִּֽנֲר֖וֹת n Proper and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
- Joshua 12:3 כִּנְר֜וֹת n Proper and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
- Joshua 13:27 כִּנֶּ֔רֶת n Proper and in the valley, Beth Haram, and Beth Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border [of it], to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
- Joshua 19:35 וְ/כִנָּֽרֶת conj + n Proper The fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
1 Kings 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Chinneroth” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name כנרות (Kinnᵉrôwth). More than half of its appearances fall in Joshua. It appears 7 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. First canonically at Numbers 34:11, it enters the text early. See 7-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3672 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,835
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,835 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 4 verses 57%
- Numbers 1 verse 14%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 7 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 71%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 29%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Chinnereth 3×, Chinneroth 2×
- American Standard Version: Chinnereth 3×, Chinneroth 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Chinnereth 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Chinnereth 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3672 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3672 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3672 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3672 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. a city Jos 19:35 (P; 𝔊 B Κενερεθ, A Χενεροθ, 𝔊L Χενερεθ, as always except Jos 13:27), so prob. 11:2 (D?; B Κενερωθ, A Χενερεθθι), Dt 3:17 (B Μαχαναρεθ;—Μαχ- = מִכּ׳). e.g. Joshua 19:35
- 2. יָם־כִּנֶּרֶת, lake near the city, Nu 34:11 (P; 𝔊B Χεναρα, A Χενερεθ), Jos 13:27 (P; 𝔊B Χενερεθ; A 𝔊L Χενερωθ), יָם כִּֽנֲֿרוֹת Jos 12:3 (D; 𝔊B Χενερεθ; A Χεννερεθ); כָּל־כִּֽנֲֿרוֹת 1 K 15:20 = all the territory about the city and lake, cf. πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν Χενερεθ 𝔊L,—𝔗 has גִּינֵסַר, גְּנֵיסַר, גִּנֹּסַר, cf. τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ Γεννησαρ 1 Makk. 11:67; Γεννησαρετ Mk 6:53 Mt 14:34 Lu 5:1; etymol. connexion with כִּנֶּרֶת disputed by GASmGeogr. 443 n. BuhlGeogr. 113 n.—On the lake and surrounding region v. GASmGeogr. ch. xxi. BdPal. 254 BuhlGeogr. 113 f. 225 FurrerZPV. 1879 (ii.), 52–74 Frei ib. 1886 (ix.), 81–145 van Kasterenib. 1888 (xi.), 212–248. e.g. Numbers 34:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.pr.loc. in Galilee (Naphtali), כִּנֶּרֶת Dt 3:17 Jos 13:27 Nu 34:11; כִּנָּ֑רֶת Jos 19:35; כִּֽנֲֿרוֹת (so Baer; כִּֽנֲֿרוֹת Norzi) Jos 11:2; 12:3 1 K 15:20;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from כנור (kinnôwr) (H3658) — lyre.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H3672 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/כִנָּֽרֶת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 19:35 | 1 |
| כִּֽנֲר֖וֹת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 11:2 | 1 |
| כִּנְר֔וֹת | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 15:20 | 1 |
| כִּנְר֜וֹת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 12:3 | 1 |
| כִּנֶּ֔רֶת | Noun, Proper | Joshua 13:27 | 1 |
| כִּנֶּ֖רֶת | Noun, Proper | Numbers 34:11 | 1 |
| מִ/כִּנֶּ֗רֶת | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 3:17 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Chinneroth). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
[Chinnereth, Chinnereth, Sea Of]
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 7 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 7 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
