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Abron
also called Abrona · Chebron · Arbonai
Abron is a brook or river named in the deuterocanonical book of Judith — specifically Judith 2:24, where the army of the Assyrian general Holofernes is described as marching across the highlands above this watercourse on its campaign of conquest. The reference is the only biblical mention of the name; nothing about the river's nature or course is preserved in the text itself.
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The Greek textual tradition is divided. Codex Alexandrinus reads Abrona, Codex Vaticanus reads Chebron, and the KJV Apocrypha renders the name Arbonai. Scholars have proposed identifying the river with the Khabour (Chaboras) of upper Mesopotamia — a major tributary of the Euphrates that Holofernes's army would have crossed — though the identification is not certain. The book of Judith is reckoned as deuterocanonical by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox traditions and as apocryphal by Protestant traditions; readers on the Protestant canon will not find Judith in the canon picker.
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