place
Chebar
כְּבָר
The Chebar River was a waterway in Babylonia near which the prophet Ezekiel received visions from God during the Babylonian exile.
- verses
- 8
- first named
- Ezekiel 1:1
- last named
- Ezekiel 10:20
- feature
- river
- coordinates
- 32.13°N · 45.23°E
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Description
Chebar in the text
The Chebar River, also known as the Kebar River, is mentioned several times in the Book of Ezekiel. It was a waterway located in Babylonia, near the city of Nippur, where the prophet Ezekiel and other Jewish exiles were settled during the Babylonian captivity.
Ezekiel received his prophetic call and many of his visions while residing by the Chebar River (Ezk.1.1, 3). It was there that he saw the vision of the four living creatures and the throne of God (Ezk.1.1-28). Later, Ezekiel was transported in visions to Jerusalem, where he witnessed the idolatry and abominations being committed in the temple (Ezk.8.1-18).
The Chebar River is also mentioned in connection with the elders of Judah who came to consult Ezekiel (Ezk.3.15) and the vision of the cherubim and the glory of God departing from the temple (Ezk.10.15-22).
The exact location of the Chebar River is uncertain, but it was likely a navigable canal or tributary of the Euphrates River. The settlement of Jewish exiles by the river suggests that it was an area suitable for agriculture and sustaining a population. The Chebar River serves as an important geographical marker in Ezekiel's prophecies and provides the setting for many of his visions and messages from God.
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Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Stands in the same events as
- Ezekiel2 events
- Chaldea1 event
- Vision1 event
- Jehoiachin1 event
The pattern
Where Chebar is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
8 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in Ezekiel (8).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 8, across 1 book.
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Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
- Ezekiel 1The River Kebar was where Ezekiel was among the exiles when the heavens opened and he saw visions of God.
- Ezekiel 3The River Kebar is where the glory had been seen and where the exiles dwelt beside it.
- Ezekiel 10By the River Kebar, Ezekiel had seen the living creatures later recognised as cherubim.
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