<Dl> <Dd> Lake or Sea of Kinneret </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> Lake or Sea of Kinneret </Dd> <P> The modern Hebrew name, Kinneret, comes from the Hebrew Bible, the main source of the Christian Old Testament, where it appears as the "sea of Kinneret" in Numbers 34: 11 and Joshua 13: 27, spelled כנרות "Kinnerot" in Hebrew in Joshua 11: 2 . This name was also found in the scripts of Ugarit, in the Aqhat Epic . Kinneret was listed among the "fenced cities" in Joshua 19: 35 . A persistent, though likely erroneous, popular etymology of the name presumes that the name Kinneret may originate from the Hebrew word kinnor ("harp" or "lyre") in view of the shape of the lake . The scholarly consensus, however, is that the origin of the name lies with the important Bronze and Iron Age city of Kinneret, excavated at Tell el -' Oreimeh . However, there is no evidence that the city of Kinneret itself was not named after the body of water rather than vice versa, or for the origin of the town's name . </P> <Dl> <Dd> Lake of Gennesaret </Dd> </Dl>

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