place · also Tiberias
Rakkath
רַקַּתΤιβεριάς
Tiberias (Rakkath), a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, near where Jesus fed the five thousand (Josh. 19:35; Jhn.6.23).
- verses
- 2
- first named
- Joshua 19:35
- last named
- John 6:23
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 32.77°N · 35.54°E
Tiberias (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Rakkath in the text
Tiberias, also known as Rakkath in the Old Testament (Josh. 19:35), was a city located on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee. It was founded around 20 AD by Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great, and named after the Roman emperor Tiberius. Tiberias served as the capital of Galilee during the time of Jesus and is mentioned in the context of the feeding of the five thousand (Jhn.6.23). After this miracle, Jesus and his disciples crossed the Sea of Galilee, and boats from Tiberias followed them. Although Tiberias is not directly mentioned in connection with Jesus' ministry, it is likely that he visited the city or passed through the region. In later centuries, Tiberias became a center of Jewish learning and the site where the Mishnah and the Jerusalem Talmud were compiled.
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Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Rakkath is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1) and John (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.
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