Καπερναούμ

Kapernaouvm Kapernaouvm or more correctly (with L T Tr WH (cf. WH's Appendix, p. 160; Scrivener, Introduction, p. 561))
Kafarnaouvm (rp;K; a village, and !Wjn: consolation; hence `the village of consolation,' (others, `village of Nachum' (a proper name));
Kaparnaoum, Ptolemy, 5, 16, 4),
hJ, Capernaum or Capharnaum, a flourishing city of Galilee (; ), situated on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee or Lake of Gennesaret (,; hence
hJ
paraqalassia, ), near the place where the Jordan flows into the lake. Being nowhere mentioned in the O. T. it seems to have been built after the exile (cf. also B. D. under the word Caphar). Josephus mentions (b. j. 3, 10, 8) a fountain in Galilee called by the neighboring residents
Kafarnaouvm, and (vita 72) `
kwvmhn
Kefarnwmhn', and it is quite probable that he meant the town we are speaking of. It is mentioned in the N. T. (besides the passage already cited) in ; ; ; ; ; ,; ; ; ; . Cf. Winer's RWB under the word; Vaihinger in Herzog vii. 369; Furrer in Schenkel iii. 493f; (the last named writing gives at length (see also Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. Palaest.-Vereins for 1879, p. 63ff) his reasons for preferring (contra Robinson, Sepp, etc.) to identify C. with Tell Hum; so (after earlier writings; cf. Arnaud, p. 414), Winer as above, Dr. Wilson, Lynch, Ritter, Delitzsch, Tristram (Land of Israel, edition 3, p. 428ff) and more recently Capt. Wilson (`Our Work in Palestine,' p. 186f and `Recovery of Jerusalem,' p. 266f (292ff)). But Conder (Tent Work in Palestine ii. 182ff) argues from Jewish authorities in favor of Khan Minyeh; see B. D. American edition under the word).*