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# כְּבָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3529

**Chebar. Compare** — used 8 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Chebar. Compare [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3529/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּבָר²: n.pr.fl. Kĕbār [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3529/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.fl. Kĕbār, a river (or perhaps a canal) of Babylonia, not at present identified, by wh. the exiles, among whom Ez. ministered, were settled; always in the phr. נְהַר כְּבָר Ez 1:1, 3; 3:15, 23; 10:15, 20, 22; 43:3 (cf. Sm Ez 1:1 DelPar. 47f., 184).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Kebar (8).

## In the verses

[Ezekiel 10:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.15/#tree)

וַיֵּרֹ֖מּוּ הַכְּרוּבִ֑ים הִ֣יא הַחַיָּ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר רָאִ֖יתִי בִּֽנְהַר־כְּבָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.rose the cherubim that \[was\].the living.creature which I.had.seen at the.river of.Kebar

*JPS 1917:* And the cherubim mounted up — this is the living creature that I saw by the river Chebar.

[Ezekiel 10:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.10.20/#tree)

הִ֣יא הַחַיָּ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר רָאִ֛יתִי תַּ֥חַת אֱלֹהֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בִּֽנְהַר־כְּבָ֑ר וָאֵדַ֕ע כִּ֥י כְרוּבִ֖ים הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* that \[was\].the living.creature which I.had.seen under the.God of.Israel at the.river of.Kebar and I.knew (dm).that \[were\].cherubim they

*JPS 1917:* This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel by the river Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3529.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3529/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).