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(Hebrew: house of fishing)
- City, east of the Jordan, on Lake Genesareth, Palestine. Nearby occurred the miracles of the loaves and fishes (Luke 9) and the restoration of sight to the blind man (Mark 8).
- City, home of Saint Peter the Apostle, Saint Andrew the Apostle, and Saint Philip (John 1:12), possibly west of the Jordan or else identical with (1).
- Pool in Jerusalem (John 5), where Our Lord cured a man "eight and thirty years under his infirmity."
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