Chebar in the Bible

Meaning: force or strength

Exact Match

Now it came about [when I was] in my thirtieth year [of life], on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles beside the River Chebar [in Babylonia], the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.

Verse Conceptsequipping, spiritualMonthRevelation, In OtRivers And StreamsThirtyVisionsProphetic VisionsMonth 4The Act Of OpeningOpening HeavenThose Who Saw Visions

Then I came to the exiles who lived beside the River Chebar at Tel Abib. I sat there for seven days [in the place] where they were living, overwhelmed with astonishment [by my vision and the work before me].

Verse ConceptsRivers And StreamsWeeksPeople AppalledRivers As Places Of Prayer

So I got up and went out to the plain; and behold, the glory and brilliance of the Lord was standing there, like the glory I had seen by the River Chebar, and I fell face downward.

Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation Ofequipping, spiritualGod's Glory In Israel

Then the cherubim rose upward. They are the [same four] living beings [regarded as one] that I saw by the River Chebar [in Babylonia].

Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesCreatures Going UpOther Creatures Going UpCherubim

These are the living beings that I saw beneath the God of Israel by the River Chebar; and I knew that they were cherubim.

Verse ConceptsCosmic CreaturesRecognising People

As for the likeness of their faces, they were the same faces whose appearance I had seen by the River Chebar. Each one went straight forward.

Verse ConceptsHeavenly FacesNot Turning Aside

His appearance in the vision that I was having was similar to what I observed in the vision where he had come to destroy the city, and also like the visions that I saw by the Chebar River. I fell flat on my face

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of JerusalemVisions From God

Thematic Bible



The word of Jehovah (YHWH) spoke to Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi. It was in Babylon by the Chebar River. The power of Jehovah came upon him.

I was living among the exiles by the Chebar River. On the fifth day of the fourth month in the thirtieth year the [figurative] heaven opened and I saw visions from God.

I went to Tel Abib, to the exiles that lived by the Chebar River. I sat there among them for seven days. I was stunned among them.

I got up and went to the plain. Jehovah's glory was standing there like the glory I saw by the Chebar River. So I immediately bowed down.

The angels rose. These were the living creatures that I saw at the Chebar River.

Their faces looked exactly like the faces that I saw by the Chebar River. Each one went straight ahead.

This vision was like the one I saw when he came to destroy Jerusalem and like the one I saw by the Chebar River. I immediately bowed down.


I was living among the exiles by the Chebar River. On the fifth day of the fourth month in the thirtieth year the [figurative] heaven opened and I saw visions from God.

The angels rose. These were the living creatures that I saw at the Chebar River.

These are the living creatures that I saw under the God of Israel at the Chebar River. I realized that they were angels (cherubs).


I was living among the exiles by the Chebar River. On the fifth day of the fourth month in the thirtieth year the [figurative] heaven opened and I saw visions from God.


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