כְּבָרKᵉbâr
Kebar, a river of Mesopotamia
Pronunciation: keb-awr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3529
Meanings
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 (Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 1:3; Ezekiel 3:15; Ezekiel 3:23; Ezekiel 10:15)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 8 times in the Bible.
- Ezekiel 1:1 On July 31 of my thirtieth year, while I was with the Judean exiles beside the Kebar River in Babylon, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 1:3 (The Lord gave this message to Ezekiel son of Buzi, a priest, beside the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians, and he felt the hand of the Lord take hold of him.)
- Ezekiel 3:15 Then I came to the colony of Judean exiles in Tel-abib, beside the Kebar River. I was overwhelmed and sat among them for seven days.
- Ezekiel 3:23 So I got up and went, and there I saw the glory of the Lord, just as I had seen in my first vision by the Kebar River. And I fell face down on the ground.
- Ezekiel 10:15 Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the same living beings I had seen beside the Kebar River.
- Ezekiel 10:20 These were the same living beings I had seen beneath the God of Israel when I was by the Kebar River. I knew they were cherubim,
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).