CENERETH

CENERETH
CENERETH
Latine cithara, vel quasi lucerna, urbs in tribu nephtalim. Ios. c. 12. v. 3. Est et ad Orientem Iudaeae mare. Numer. c. 34. v. 11. Alias mare Tiberiadis, et lacus Genesarethicus, seu mare Galilaeae dicitur, 40. stad. in latitud. diffunditur, ac 100. in longitud. extenditur. Ioseph. de Bell. Iud. l. 3. c. 18. Per hunc medium Iordanes amnis profluit.

Hofmann J. Lexicon universale. 1698.

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