Capernaum
Proper noun
Meaning
Capernaum
A biblical town in Galilee, archaeological site.
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Examples
“21 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching.”
Capernaum, Jesus’s home during his ministry and the setting of his teaching about the temple tax, was a city on the northern shore of the sea of Galilee.
Capernaum Trust, the largest privately-funded scholarship program in Southern Africa, has students in establishments that include Waterford Kamhlaba in Swaziland and Monash College in South Africa.
Consequently, he left in anger, rebuking the three places saying: “Woe to you, Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum, for if I had done these mighty works in the sinful cities of Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes.”
The area to the north of the Sea of Galilee, including Capernaum and Chorazin, is covered by black layers of volcanic rock.
Following lunch, we visited Chorazim and Capernaum, two of the three cities condemned by Jesus (Matthew 11).