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title: כְּבָר — Chebar. Compare · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּבָר (3529), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: Chebar. Compare. BDB 1906: n.pr.fl. Kĕbār. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּבָר

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«כְּבָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Chebar. Compare** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 8 times · **Key:** 3529 · **BDB:** כְּבָר²

### Glosses

of.Kebar (8)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּבָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3529/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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

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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.

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