 The scholarly consensus, however, is that the origin of the name is derived from the important Bronze and Iron Age city of Kinneret, excavated at Tell el-'Oreimeh.The city of Kinneret may have been named after the body of water rather than vice versa, and there is no evidence for the origin of the town's name.All Old and New Testament writers use the term "sea" (Hebrew יָם "yam", Greek θάλασσα), with the exception of Luke, who calls it "the Lake of Gennesaret" (), from the Greek λίμνη Γεννησαρέτ ("limnē Gennēsaret"), the "Grecized form of Chinnereth" according to Easton (1897).