Chebar

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Chebar
     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 the Israelites were removed by
     the Assyrians (2 Kings 17:6). An opinion that has much to
     support it is that the "Chebar" was the royal canal of
     Nebuchadnezzar, the Nahr Malcha, the greatest in Mesopotamia,
     which connected the Tigris with the Euphrates, in the excavation
     of which the Jewish captives were probably employed.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Chebar, force or strength