CHINNERETH
Or CINNEROTH, a town on the west shore of the sea of Galilee, Numbers 34:11; Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 11:2;Joshua 1:19; 1 Kings 15:20. It was a "fenced city" of Naphtali, and gave its name to the lake on which it stood. Tiberias is supposed by Jerome to have afterwards occupied its site.