Dictionaries :: Chorazin

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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 (Mat 11:21; Luk 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.

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Chorazin:

the secret; here is a mystery

International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia

Chorazin:

ko-ra'-zin (Chorazin, Mt 11:21; Chorazin, Lu 10:13; Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek Chorazein): A city whose name appears only in the woe pronounced against it by Christ (Mt 11:21; Lu 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 Chum. 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.

Written by W. Ewing

Nave's Topical Bible

Chorazin: Denunciation Against

Mat 11:21; Luk 10:13

Smith's Bible Dictionary

Chorazin:

one of the cities in which our Lord's mighty works were done, but named only in His denunciation Matt. 11:21; Luke 10:13. St. Jerome describes it as on the shore of the lake, two miles from Capernaum, but its modern site is uncertain.