H3529

כְּבָר

ke.varN:N--L

Chebar

§ Chebar = "far-off" a Babylonian river near which many Israelite exiles settled; maybe the 'Habor' or the 'Royal Canal' of Nebuchadnezzar

Full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon entry

II. כְּבָר proper name, of a river Kebar, a river (or perhaps a canal) of Babylonia, not at present identified, by which the exiles, among whom Ezekiel ministered, were settled; always in the phrase נְהַר כְּבָר Ezek 1:1; Ezek 1:3; Ezek 3:15; Ezek 3:23; Ezek 10:15; Ezek 10:20; Ezek 10:22; Ezek 43:3 (compare SmEzek 1:1 DelPar. 47 f., 184).


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