Chorazin
CHORAZIN
A town in Galilee, near to Capernaum and Bethsaida, on the northwest shore of the Sea of Galilee. Jerome says it was two miles from Capernaum. No traces of its name remain; but Robinson with strong probability locates it at the modern Tell-hum, on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee, three miles northeast of Capernaum. It was upbraided by Christ for its impenitence, Mat 11:21 ; Luk 10:13 .
Fuente: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
Chorazin
( v. r. , v, and ), one of the cities () in which our Lord’s mighty works were done, but named only in his denunciation (Mat 11:21; Luk 10:13; see Scherzer, Salvatoris oraculum, Vet tibi Chorazin, Lips. 1710), in connection with Bethsaida and Capernaum, not far from which, in Galilee, it appears to have been situated. It was known to Jerome, who describes it (Comm. in Matthew 11) as on the shore of the lake, 2 miles from Capernaum, or 12 miles, according to Eusebius (Onomast. s.v. , Chorozain). Some compare the Talmudical Keraz n [q.v.J (, Menachoth, fol. 85, 1), mentioned as being famous for wheat (Reland, Palaest. p. 722; Schwarz, Palest. p. 189); while others compare ” HAROSHETH SEE HAROSHETH (q.v.) of the Gentiles” ( , Jdg 4:2); and still others consider the name as having been in the vernacular Charashin (), i.e. woody places (Lightfoot, p. 160 sq.). Origen and some MSS. write the name Chora-Zin ( , H. Ernesti, Observatt. Amst. 1636, 2:6), i.e. district of Zin; but this is probably mere conjecture. St.Willibald (about A.D. 750) visited the various places along the lake in the following order- Tiberias, Magdalum, Capernaum, Bethsaida, Chorazin (Early Trav. Bohn, p. 17), being doubtless guided by local tradition, for the knowledge of the site has become utterly extinct (Robinson, Researches, 3:295). Some writers at one time supposed it to be the same with Kelat el-Ilorsa, a place on the eastern shore of the Sea of Gennesareth, where Seetzen (Reisen, 1:344) and Burckhardt (Trav. p. 265) describe some ruins; but this is written Kel-Hossu on later maps. A more recent writer (in the Hall. Lit.- Zeit. 1845, No. 233) regards it as a place in Wady el-Jamus; but this also lacks authority. Pococke (East, 2:72) speaks of a village called Gerasi among the hills west of Tell-Houm, 10 or 12 miles north-north-east of Tiberias, and close to Capernaum. The natives, according to Dr. Richardson, call it Chorasi. It is apparently this place which Keith and Van de Velde (Memoir, p. 304) call Kerazeh, and describe as containing several pedestals of columns, with leveled shafts, and the remains of a building formed of large hewn stones; while Dr. Robinson (Later Biblical Res. p. 360) rejects the identification with disparagement of the antiquities (p. 347), although he did not visit the site (Biblioth. Sacra, 1853, p. 137), which Dr. Thomson, nevertheless, confidently adopts (Land and Book, 2:8), apparently with good reason. M. De Saulcy is disposed to identify Chorazin with the fountain Ain et-Tin, near the northern extremity of the plain of Gennesareth; but his arguments, except the vicinity of the spots to the lake, are frivolous (Narrative, 2:371). The question is intimately connected with that of the position of Capernaum (q.v.). Dissertations on the curse pronounced by Christ against this and the neighboring places (Mat 11:21) have been written in Latin by Scherzer (Lips. 1666), Hornbeck (Miscell. Sacr. Ultraj. 1687, I, 3:301 sq.), Schott (Tb. 1766).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Chorazin
named along with Bethsaida and Capernaum as one of the cities in which our Lord’s “mighty works” were done, and which was doomed to woe because of signal privileges neglected (Matt. 11:21; Luke 10:13). It has been identified by general consent with the modern Kerazeh, about 2 1/2 miles up the Wady Kerazeh from Capernaum; i.e., Tell Hum.
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Chorazin
With Capernaum and Bethsaida doomed to “woe,” because of neglected spiritual privileges. The scene of many of Jesus’ mighty works, which failed to bring its people to repentance and faith (Mat 11:21; Luk 10:13). No work of Jesus is recorded in it, a proof of how much more he did than is written (Joh 21:25). Probably at Kerazeh, near Tell Hum.
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Chorazin
CHORAZIN.Mentioned once only in the Gospels, Mat 11:21 = Luk 10:13, along with Bethsaida, as one of the cities () where most of Jesus mighty deeds were done. The name is not found in the OT nor in Josephus; and it is not certain whether it be the same place as or mentioned once in the Talmud (hoth, 85), where the superior quality of its wheat is praised. Jastrows gives near Jerusalem, Dalmans name of place. One MS has , two ; see Rabbinowicz, ae Lectiones; Neubauer, Gographie du Talmud, p. 220. Most MSS [Note: SS Manuscripts.] of the NT spell (), others, especially in Luke, ; so Stephen in Luke, but not Elzevir, Mill; D [Note: Deuteronomist.] both times , and the same form prevails in the Latin texts: C(h)orozain. Why the editions of the Peshitta, even Gwilliams, spell Krzn, we fail to see. Barhebraeus gives expressly Kurzn as the vocalization of the Peshitta, and Chorazin as that of the Greek.
Neither the grammatical form of the name (on which see Schwbel, ZDPV [Note: DPV Zeitschrift des Deutschen Palstina-Vereins.] xxvii. 134) nor its etymology is sufficiently clear. The place has been identified with Khersa on the eastern shore of the Lake of Galilee, but more probably with Khirbet Kerzeh, 4 kilometres N. of Tell Hm, first discovered by Thomson in 1857. Eusebius calls it a (oppidum), 12 Roman miles from Capernaum, in his time deserted; but 12 seems to be a misspelling of the MS for 2, as given by the Latin translation of Jerome (Eusebius, Onomasticon, ed. Klostermann, 174. 25, 175. 25).* [Note: In the Latin text (OS2 114. 7) the name is spelt Chorazin, not Chorozain, as stated in Encyc. Bibl., where also the modern name Kerzeh is once spelt with K, as if it were .] On the ruins of Kerzeh, especially its synagogue, see the literature quoted by Schrer, GJV [Note: JV Geschichte des Jdischen Volkes.] 3 [Note: designates the particular edition of the work referred] 27, n. [Note: note.] 59. Cheynes list of Proper Names (in the Queens Printers Aids to the Student of the Holy Bible) recommends the pronunciation Cho-razin; this is supported by the modern form Kerzeh, if it be the same name; the accentuation of the first syllable, common in German, has the support of Kurzin in the Peshitta; in Latin Choroza in. The mediaeval explanation of the name hoc mysterium meum = , goes back to Jerome (OS 61. 8). There was once a tradition that the Antichrist was to be born in Chorazin, and that its inhabitants were proud of this, and therefore the place was cursed by Jesus; see Expos. Times, xv. [1904] p. 524. The name Chorazin is, like that of Nazareth, an interesting illustration of the scantiness of our literary tradition. [Note: Among the mighty works done in Bethsaida the feeding of the 5000 is certainly to be reckoned (Luk 9:10 ff., where of v.12 is to be explained from = [OS 174. 7, 188. 75]). Hence it is tempting to find one of the mighty works done at Chorazin in the healing of the demoniac in the land of the Gerasenes or Gergesenes (8:26), and to combine this name with Chorazin. In his Philologica Sacra (1890, p. 21) the present writer suggesten that the prominent part played by the swine in that story may be derived from a local name like Ras el-chinzir or Tell abu-l-chinzir. The plural of chinzir (swine) is chanazir, of which Chorazin might be a transposition.]
Eb. Nestle.
Fuente: A Dictionary Of Christ And The Gospels
Chorazin
CHORAZIN.A place referred to only in the denunciation by Christ (Mat 11:21, Luk 10:13). It is with probability identified with Kerazeh, north of Tell Hum, where are remains of pillars, walls, etc., of basalt.
R. A. S. Macalister.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Chorazin
ko-razin (, Chorazn, Mat 11:21; , Chorazn, Luk 10:13; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek , Chorazen): A city whose name appears only in the woe pronounced against it by Christ (Mat 11:21; Luk 10:13). Its appearance there, however, shows that it must have been a place of some importance, and highly privileged by the ministry of Jesus. It was already deserted in the time of Eusebius, who places it 2 miles from Capernaum (Onomasticon, under the word). We can hardly doubt that it is represented by the extensive ruins of Kerazeh, on the heights to the north of Tell Hum. It is utterly desolate: a few carved stones being seen among the heaps. There are traces of a Roman road which connected the ancient city with the great highway between north and south which touched the lake shore at Khan Minyeh.
Fuente: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
Chorazin
Chorazin, a town mentioned in Mat 11:21; Luk 10:13, in connection with Bethsaida and Capernaum, not far from which, in Galilee, it appears to have been situated. Jerome makes it a village of Galilee, on the shore of the Lake Tiberias, two miles from Capernaum. But no place of the name has been historically noticed since his days; and not only the town, but its very name appears to have long since perished. [BETHESDA; CAPERNAUM]
Fuente: Popular Cyclopedia Biblical Literature
Chorazin
[Chora’zin]
City in which some of the Lord’s mighty works were done, and on which a woe was pronounced. Mat 11:21; Luk 10:13. The woe was also pronounced on Bethsaida and Capernaum. They were all near the Sea of Galilee. Chorazin is identified with the ruins of Kerazeh, 32 55′ N, 35 34′ E.
Fuente: Concise Bible Dictionary
Chorazin
Chorazin (ko-r’zin). A city named with Capernaum and Bethsaida in the woes pronounced by Christ. Mat 11:20-23; Luk 10:13. The identification of Chorazin depends largely, though not wholly, upon that of Capernaum. Robinson places it at Tell Hum, but others, with greater probability, fix its site at Kerzeh, two and a half miles northwest of Tell Hum, and west of the valley of the Jordan.
Fuente: People’s Dictionary of the Bible
Chorazin
Chora’zin. One of the cities in which our Lord’s mighty works were done, but named only in His denunciation. Mat 11:21; Luk 10:13. St. Jerome describes it as on the shore of the lake, two miles from Capernaum, but its modern site is uncertain.