Sychar
The village of the Samaritan woman.
Inhabitants or natives[edit | edit source]
Photinai the Samaritan woman, Abel of Sychar.
Description[edit | edit source]
"[...] they turn around three or four times to look at Jesus, Who has sat down on a little wall, exposed to the sun, near the low broad edge of a well. It is a big well, so wide that it seems like a cistern. In summer it is shaded by tall trees, which are now bare. It is not possible to see the water, but the little puddles and ring marks of wet pitchers on the ground near the well, are clear signs that water has been drawn."[1]
Notable events[edit | edit source]
Jesus meets the Samaritan woman Photinai here, the woman with five husbands, and speaks to her about the water of Life.[2]
Its name[edit | edit source]
Sychar - Sichar - Today Askar, on the eastern slope of Mount Ebal, about 3 km east-northeast of Shechem (Nablus) and 1 km north of Jacob's well.
Where is it mentioned in the work?[edit | edit source]
GRM 143 GRM 144 GRM 145 GRM 146
GRM 571
Learn more about this place[edit | edit source]
Located near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.[3]
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