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Chebar in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Chebar Scripture - Ezekiel 1:3

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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Chebar in Naves Topical Bible

A river of Mesopotamia Eze 1:1,3; 3:15,23; 10:15,22; 43:3...

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Chebar Scripture - Ezekiel 3:23

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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Chebar in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Chebar Scripture - Ezekiel 10:22

And the likeness of their faces [was] the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward....

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Chebar in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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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Chebar Scripture - Ezekiel 3:15

Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days....

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Chebar in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

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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Chebar Scripture - Ezekiel 10:20

This [is] the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they [were] the cherubims....

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