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Tel Abib (, Tel Aviv, "the hill of Spring", from Akkadian Tel Abûbi, "The Tel of the flood") is an unidentified tell ("hill city") on the Kebar Canal, near in what is now Iraq. Tel Abib is mentioned by in :


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The Kebar or Chebar Canal (or River) is the setting of several important scenes of the Book of Ezekiel, including the . The book refers to this river eight times in total., , , , , , , , and . Reference

Some older biblical commentaries identified the Chebar with the Khabur River in what is now . The Khabur is mentioned in as the "Habor". However, more recent scholarship is agreed that the location of the Kebar Canal is near in Iraq.

The ka-ba-ru waterway (Akkadian) is mentioned among the 5th century BCE archives from Nippur.

(1992). 9780385193511, Doubleday.
It was part of a complex network of and transport canals which also included the , a silted up canal toward the east of Babylon.
(1994). 9780849908309, Word, Incorporated.
(1997). 9780802825353, Eerdmans.

It is not to be confused with the Kebar River in Iran, site of , the oldest surviving arch dam.


Legacy
adopted the biblical place-name as the title for his Hebrew translation of 's 1902 novel Altneuland ("Old New Land"), basing it on archaeologists' use of Arabic "tel" extracted from placenames to mean = "accumulated mound of debris" for "old", and "spring" (season) for "new", "renewal". Menachem Shenkin picked its name to mean a new Jewish village near , which grew into the modern city of . The letter ב without represents a sound like v, but older English translations of the traditionally transcribe it as "b".


See also
  • Book of Ezekiel
  • Tell (archaeology)

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