Chastity

See Crimes, and Marriage. CHEBAR (133, Xo;3ip, Ezk li-» 3"-2» 10"- • « 43'). — A river in ' tlie land of the ChaUUeans,' by the side of which Ezekiel saw his first vision of the Cherubim. Near the banks of this stream was Tel-abib, the home of a colony of Jewish exiles, among whom Ezekiel lived and prophesied (Ezk 3"). The Chebar has commonly been identilied, in accordance with a Syrian Cliristian tradition, with the Habor (nun, 'Afidppas), the modern Cliabour, which runs into the Euphrates not far from the site of Circesium. But the two names are very difTerent, and Babylonia, whitlier the Jews were deported (2 K 24'"-, Jer 29'- '), can hardly be con- sidered to include Northern Mesojiotamia. It is therefore more probable that the Chebar was one of the numerous canals in the neighbourhood of Babylon to which the name of 'river' was often given (cf. Niildeke in Schenkel's Bibel-Lexicon). The name, however, has not yet been discovered in any of the numerous li.sts of rivers and canals which are to be found in Assyrian and ISaliyUmian literature. The word is probably connected with the Semitic root i-z tu be great ; lience it has been suggested that Chebar was another name of the Na/iar ilalclui, or Royal Canal of Nebuchadrezzar. H. A. White. CHECK in the obsol. sense of 'rebuke' or 're- proof occurs Job 20^ 'I have heard the c. of my reproach' (RV 'reproof which putteth me to shame'). Cf. Pepys, Diary, 26th Sept., 'I was very angry, and . . . did give him a very great check for it, and so to bed '; and Shaks., Ilenry IV. IV. iii. 34, ' I never knew yet but rebuke and check was the reward of valour.' RV gives the verb in 1 S 24' in the mod. sense of ' restrain,' ' sc David checked his men with these words' (AV 'stayed'). J. IJa.stings. CHECKER WORK (now generally spalt cheque* OHEDOli-LAO.MKR CHKLUD 375 work) ia work arrnntjed after the pattern of a chesa-board (vhieli was orig. called 'a checker or chetiuer'). J K 7" 'nets of checker work" (c'r;^ n;;s' iffj;?), — trellis work of some material used to ornament the ' chapiters ' of the pillars in Solomon's temple. In 2 K 1- the srbluiklu'ili is a ' lattice' in an u])per chamber throut;h which Ahaziah fell. In Job 18^ it is a net for snaring. J. Uastinos.