Sin. and Cur., Pesh.; s. RHarris, ET 40, 1929, 189f) Gennesaret, prob. name of the fertile and (in I A.D.) thickly populated plain south of Capernaum, now El-Ghuweir (Jos., Bell. 3, 516ff) Mt 14:34; Mk 6:53. This was also the name of the large lake adjacent to the plain, λίμνη Γ. (Jos., Bell. 3, 506 λίμνη Γεννησάρ; 1 Macc 11:67 τὸ ὕδωρ τοῦ Γεννησάρ; Stephan. Byz. s.v. Τιβεριάς: this is a city πρὸς τῇ Γεννεσιρίτιδι λίμνῃ) Lk 5:1, less precisely termed θάλασσα τῆς Γαλιλαίας (Mt 4:18;