Biblical place
Where was Chebar?
Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Shatt en Nil.
First appears in Ezekiel 1:1 · 1 books · 4 chapters
Overview
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). Modern identification: Shatt en Nil.
Chebar is represented in the local geography layer as Shatt en Nil. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Ezekiel 1:1 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 8 verse references collected into the glossary index.
Nearby biblical places
About 89 km away in the local coordinate layer.
Where it sits on the map
How to get to Chebar today
Travel to Chebar, the modern-day Shatt en Nil.
Chebar is commonly identified with Shatt en Nil, and the map on this page is meant to orient you to that present-day site before you continue into routing or street-level navigation.
Chebar is mapped here at the commonly cited modern identification.
This is a study aid, not live travel advice. Archaeological tells, access rules, excavation boundaries, and nearby modern roads can change.
Key passages
Appears in
4 chapters · 8 verse mentions