Τιβεριάς

English (Abbott-Smith)

Τιβεριάς, -άδος, ἡ (< Τιβέριος),
Tiberias, a city of Galilee: Jo 6:23, Jo 6:1 21:1 (cf Γεννησσαρέτ, Γαλιλαία).†

English (Strong)

from Τιβέριος; Tiberias, the name of a town and a lake in Palestine: Tiberias.

English (Thayer)

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. 234note) 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: Winer s RWB, under the word; Rüetschi in Herzog edition 1 16:101; Weizsäcker in Sehenkel v., 526f; (Mühlau in Riehm, p. 1661 f); Bädeker, pp. 367-369.