Chebar
ke'-bar (kebhar, "joining" (Young), "length" (Strong);
Chobar): The river by the side of which his first vision was
vouchsafed to Ezekiel (1:1). It is described as in "the land
of the Chaldeans," and is not, therefore, to be sought in
northern Mesopotamia. This rules out the Habor, the modern
Chabour, with which it is often identified. The two...
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A river of Mesopotamia Eze 1:1,3; 3:15,23; 10:15,22; 43:3...
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(length), a river in the "land of the Chaldeans." Eze 1:3;
3:15,23 etc. It is commonly regarded as identical with the
Habor, 2Ki 17:6 and perhaps the Royal Canal of Nebuchadnezzar,
--the greatest of all the cuttings in Mesopotamia....
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length, a river in the "land of the Chaldeans" (Ezek. 1:3),
on
the banks of which were located some of the Jews of
the
Captivity (Ezek. 1:1; 3:15, 23; 10:15, 20, 22). It has
been
supposed to be identical with the river Habor, the
Chaboras, or
modern Khabour, which falls into the Euphrates at
Circesium. To
the banks of this river some of t...
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A river of Chaldaea, where Ezekiel saw his earlier visions
(Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 3:15; Ezekiel 3:23).
Nebuchadnezzar had planted many of the captives taken with
Jehoiachin there (2 Kings 24:15). The Habor or river of Gozan,
where the Assyrians planted the Israelites (2 Kings 17:6), is
conjectured to be the same. The Greek Chaboras...
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And [it was] according to the appearance of the vision which I
saw, [even] according to the vision that I saw when I came to
destroy the city: and the visions [were] like the vision that
I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face....
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Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth
[month], in the fifth [day] of the month, as I [was] among the
captives by the river of Chebar, [that] the heavens were
opened, and I saw visions of God....
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The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,
the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river
Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him....
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Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the
glory of the LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the
river of Chebar: and I fell on my face....
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