Lexicon
חָבוֹר
cha.vor
H2249
N:N--L Hebrew

Habor

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cha.vor is a proper name used for a destination named among places where deported Israelites were settled.

The attested proper-name use identifies a place named with Halah and Gozan in accounts of Israelite deportation and settlement.

Senses in use

  1. Place named among deportation destinations · dominant

    In 1 Chronicles 5:26, the Proper Noun form occurs in the list of places to which the Reubenites, Gadites, and half tribe of Manasseh were brought. In 2 Kings 17:6 and 2 Kings 18:11, the same Proper Noun form occurs in the settlement location described as the Habor river of Gozan in the APB.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the name as "Habor" in all three verses; in 2 Kings 17:6 and 2 Kings 18:11 it phrases the location as "the Habor river of Gozan." The verse is read as a whole.

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