Zer

Zer appears once in Scripture in Joshua's catalog of Naphtali's fortified cities on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee: "And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor" (Joshua 19:35-36). The town belonged to the cluster of fortified watch-posts on the western lakeshore north of where Tiberias would later be founded. The exact site of Zer remains unidentified, somewhere in the harp-shaped basin around the lower Sea of Galilee. Some scholars suggest it may be a scribal duplication of Ziddim that crept into the consonantal text.