Χοβάρ

Chobar, Chebar

Translated by David Whitehead7 May 2006Vetting: high7 revisions

2 words

A river.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Χοβάρ· ποταμός.

Betacode

*xoba/r: potamo/s.

Mentioned throughout the Book of Ezechiel, as a river "in the land of the Chaldaeans" (chi 13), on whose banks lived some of the Jews of the Babylonian Captivity. Seemingly the present-day Khabur, a large tributary of the Euphrates. See also chi 422.