COROZAIN. – A city of Galilee visited several times by the Savior, but which did not receive his message and was included, together with Cafarnao and Bethsaida, in the curse pronounced in Mt. 11:20–24; Lc. 10:12–15.
The topographical indication given by Eusebius (Onom., 175, 24)—“a deserted village 2 miles from Cafarnao”—corresponds precisely to the desolate site, amid a landscape of basalt, of Hírbet Kerázch, 3 km north of Tell-Húm (Cafarnao).
During the German archaeological exploration of 1905, a synagogue was brought to light among the ruins of the buildings, constructed of extremely hard black basalt stones and similar in structure and decoration to that of Tell-Húm and to others discovered in Galilee dating from the second and third centuries. Particularly noteworthy among the ruins is the complete chair of the archisynagogue, bearing a Hebrew-Aramaic inscription that commemorates Iudan, son of Iamael, builder of the structure.