Sychar, a Samaritan city near Jacob's well, where Jesus spoke with a Samaritan woman (Jhn.4.5).
Sychar is mentioned in Jhn.4.5 as a Samaritan city near the plot of ground that Israel (or 'Jacob') had given to his son Joseph. It was located close to Jacob's well, where Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down and engaged in a conversation with a Samaritan woman (Jhn.4.6-26). This encounter led to many Samaritans from the city believing in Jesus as the Christ (Jhn.4.39-42). The exact location of Sychar is debated, but it is often identified with the modern village of Askar, situated about half a mile northeast of Jacob's well.
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Liar or drunkard (see Isa. 28:1, 7), has been from the time of the Crusaders usually identified with Sychem or Shechem (John 4:5). It has now, however, as the result of recent explorations, been identified with ‘Askar, a small Samaritan town on the southern base of Ebal, about a mile to the north of Jacob’s well.
a place named only in (John 4:5) Sychar was either a name applied to the town of Shechem or it was an independent place. The first of these alternatives is now almost universally accepted. [Shechem]
SY'CHAR (drunken?). John 4:5. It is generally supposed that Sychar is a name of Shechem, perhaps given to it in derision. This was Robinson's view, and he seems to have followed a monkish tradition of the Middle Ages. The objection to identifying Sychar with Shechem is that Jacob's well, at the entrance into the valley, is a mile and a half from Shechem, and the woman, if belonging to Shechem. would not go so far for water when plenty was nearer at hand. Hence. Thomson, Canon Williams, Conder, Baedeker, and others identify Sychar with the little village of Askar, on the eastern slope of Ebal, about a mile and a half from Shechem, and to the north-east of Jacob's well. The village is merely a modern one built of mud, but there are remains of ancient tombs near the road beneath it.
SY'CHAR (drunken?). John 4:5. It is generally supposed that Sychar is a name of Shechem, perhaps given to it in derision. This was Robinson's view, and he seems to have followed a monkish tradition of the Middle Ages. The objection to identifying Sychar with Shechem is that Jacob's well, at the entrance into the valley, is a mile and a half from Shechem, and the woman, if belonging to Shechem. would not go so far for water when plenty was nearer at hand. Hence. Thomson, Canon Williams, Conder, Baedeker, and others identify Sychar with the little village of Askar, on the eastern slope of Ebal, about a mile and a half from Shechem, and to the north-east of Jacob's well. The village is merely a modern one built of mud, but there are remains of ancient tombs near the road beneath it.
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So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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