- Original: Τιβεριάς - Transliteration: Tiberias - Phonetic: tib-er-ee-as' - Definition: Tiberias = from the Tiber (as river-god) 1. a city of Galilee near the Lake of Gennesaret, which herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, greatly enlarged and beautified, and named Tiberias in honour of Tiberias Caesar - Origin: from G5086 - TDNT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine - Strong's: From G5086 ; Tiberias the name of a town and a lake in Palestine: - Tiberias. Total KJV Occurrences: 3 • Tiberias, 3 Joh 6:1; Joh 6:23; Joh 21:1