So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
Genesis 33:18; and is either the same, only its termination is changed from "em" into "ar", as Achan into Achar, 1 Chronicles 2:7. Or it is a new name that was given it, and by which it went in the time of Christ; and might be so called, either from