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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - Τιβεριάς
Τιβεριάς
G5085
Transliteration: Tiberiás
Pronunciation: tib-er-ee-as'
Definition: Tiberias
- Original: Τιβεριάς - Transliteration: Tiberias - Phonetic: tib-er-ee-as'
- Definition: Tiberias = "from the Tiber (as river-god)"
1. a city of Galilee near the Lake of Gennesaret, which Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, greatly enlarged and beautified, and named Tiberias in honour of Tiberias Caesar
- Origin: from G5086" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5086 - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine - Strong's: From G5086" class="dictionary-topic-link">G5086; Tiberias the name of a town and a lake in Palestine: - Tiberias.