Lexicon :: Strong's G5085 - tiberias

Τιβεριάς
Transliteration
tiberias (Key)
Pronunciation
tib-er-ee-as'
Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From Τιβέριος (G5086)
mGNT
3x in 1 unique form(s) TR
3x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
Τιβεριάδος — 3x
Τιβεριάδος — 3x
Strong’s Definitions

Τιβεριάς Tiberiás, tib-er-ee-as'; from G5086; Tiberias, the name of a town and a lake in Palestine:—Tiberias.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G5085 in the following manner: Tiberias (3x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G5085 in the following manner: Tiberias (3x).

  1. 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

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Τιβεριάς Tiberiás, tib-er-ee-as'; from G5086; Tiberias, the name of a town and a lake in Palestine:—Tiberias.
STRONGS G5085:
Τιβεριάς, Τιβεριάδος, ἡ (from Τιβέριος), a city of Galilee, near the Lake of Gennesaret, which Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, greatly enlarged (but see BB. DD., under the word and especially Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch., p. 234 note) and beautified, and named Tiberias in honor of Tiberius Caesar (Josephus, Antiquities 18, 2, 3). It is now called Tubariyeh, a poor and wretched town of about 3,000 inhabitants, swarming with fleas for which the place is notorious throughout Syria: John 6:1, 23; John 21:1. Cf. Robinson 2:380-394; Winers RWB, under the word; Rüetschi in Herzog edition 1 16:101; Weizsäcker in Sehenkel v., 526f; (Mühlau in Riehm, p. 1661f); Bädeker, pp. 367-369.
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