chebar

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chebar - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Chebar
  length, a river in the "land of the Chaldeans" (Ezek. 1:3), on
  the banks of which were located some of the Jews of the
  Captivity (Ezek. 1:1; 3:15, 23; 10:15, 20, 22). It has been
  supposed to be identical with the river Habor, the Chaboras, or
  modern Khabour, which falls into the Euphrates at Circesium. To
  the banks of this river some of the Israelites were removed by
  the Assyrians (2 Kings 17:6). An opinion that has much to
  support it is that the "Chebar" was the royal canal of
  Nebuchadnezzar, the Nahr Malcha, the greatest in Mesopotamia,
  which connected the Tigris with the Euphrates, in the excavation
  of which the Jewish captives were probably employed.