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Sychar

Places · Updated 2026-05-07

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Sychar is the Samaritan town near Jacob's well where Jesus speaks with the woman drawing water, and is identified in scripture with the older site of Shechem in Mount Ephraim. The name preserves a New Testament form of the same central-Canaan city that figures across the patriarchal, conquest, and divided-kingdom narratives.

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