Bible Location
Meaning: a partaker; a companion · 3 cross references · Modern-day map available
The Habor was the Mesopotamian river region associated with the exile of Israelites under Assyria. The source tradition commonly connects it with the Khabur, though exact ancient identifications remain partly reconstructive, and it is important because it makes the geography of deportation specific and memorable. First appears in 2 Kgs 17:6.1
Place meaning
a partaker; a companion
Coordinates
36.34, 40.79
First appears
2 Kgs 17:6
AI summary: Habor matters because exile is easier to speak about in the abstract than to picture, and this river gives it a map. Kings and Chronicles tie the deported Israelites to the Habor region, showing how Assyria displaced whole populations into distant, identifiable territories. The cross references present Habor as a river of exile, forced relocation, and imperial control.1
Place meaning
a partaker; a companion
Latitude
36.34
Longitude
40.79
Bible references
3
The united stream, or, according to others, with beautiful banks, the name of a river in Assyria, and also of the district through which it flowed (1 Chr. 5:26). There is a river called Khabur which rises in the central highlands of Kurdistan, and flows south-west till it falls into the Tigris, about 70 miles above Mosul. This was not, however, the Habor of Scripture.
There is another river of the same name (the Chaboras) which, after a course of about 200 miles, flows into the Euphrates at Karkesia, the ancient Circesium. This was, there can be little doubt, the ancient Habor. 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.