# kinneret (כִּנֶּרֶת)

pronounced: kee-NEH-ret


**The Hebrew name of the Sea of Galilee and Israel’s largest freshwater lake**

## In Scripture

> The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.
> — Numbers 34:11 (The biblical form of the lake’s Hebrew name)

> the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.
> — Deuteronomy 3:17 (The lake appears under its biblical name as a boundary of the land.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/kinneret/