John 4:5

4:5 Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

tn Grk “town of Samaria.” The noun Σαμαρείας (Samareias) has been translated as an attributive genitive.

sn Sychar was somewhere in the vicinity of Shechem, possibly the village of Askar, 1.5 km northeast of Jacob’s well.

sn Perhaps referred to in Gen 48:22.