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CHEBAR

(Heb. kĕḇār)

A Mesopotamian canal besides whose banks Ezekiel received his inaugural vision (Ezek. 1:1–3:27) as well as a number of other prophetic oracles (10:15, 20, 22; 43:3). In antiquity its course left the Euphrates N of Sippar and ran southeast ca. 300 km. (186 mi.) through the Nippur region before rejoining the Euphrates S of ancient Uruk. The Chebar (Akk. ka-ba-ru) is also mentioned in several cuneiform documents of the 5th century b.c.e. from Nippur.

Bibliography. R. Zadok, “The Nippur Region during the Late Assyrian, Chaldaean and Achaemenian Periods, Chiefly According to Written Sources,” IOS 8 (1978): 266-332.

Stephen J. Andrews