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Bible Concordance
Jabez (3 Occurrences)

1 Chronicles 2:55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 4:9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow." (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

1 Chronicles 4:10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!" God granted him that which he requested. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV)

Thesaurus
Jabez (3 Occurrences)
... 2:55). Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. JABEZ. ja'-bez ... place cited.).
Multi-Version Concordance Jabez (3 Occurrences). 1 Chronicles ...
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Tirathites (1 Occurrence)
... ti'-rath-its (tir`athim; Codex Vaticanus and Codex Alexandrinus, Argathieim; Lucian,
Tharathei: A family of scribes that dwelt at Jabez (1 Chronicles 2:55). ...
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Sucathites (1 Occurrence)
... Codex Alexandrinus Sokathieim; the King James Version Suchathites): These are named
only once (1 Chronicles 2:55), a family of scribes living at Jabez. ...
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Honourable (72 Occurrences)
... (DBY). 1 Chronicles 4:9 And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his
mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. (See JPS). ...
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Honorable (42 Occurrences)
... 1 Chronicles 4:9 Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named
him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow." (WEB KJV ASV WBS NAS RSV ...
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Honoured (79 Occurrences)
... 1 Chronicles 4:9 And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had
given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow. ...
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Ja'besh-gil'ead (12 Occurrences)
Ja'besh-gil'ead. << Jabesh-gilead, Ja'besh-gil'ead. Jabez >>. Multi-Version Concordance ... <<
Jabesh-gilead, Ja'besh-gil'ead. Jabez >>. Reference Bible.
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Jabin (8 Occurrences)

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Books (16 Occurrences)
... Others are instances which the Chronicler has taken from other sources than the
Old Testament-for instance, the story of Jabez, or the accounts of the ...
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Pain (172 Occurrences)
... (BBE). 1 Chronicles 4:9 And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his
mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. ...
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Hitchcock's Bible Names
Jabez

sorrow; trouble

Smith's Bible Dictionary
Jabez

(sorrow).

  1. Apparently a place at which the families of the scribes resided who belonged to the families of the Kenites. (1 Chronicles 2:55)
  2. The name occurs again in the genealogies of Judah, (1 Chronicles 4:9,10) in a passage of remarkable detail inserted in a genealogy again connected with Bethlehem. ver. 4.
ATS Bible Dictionary
Jabez

A descendant of Judah, whose high distinction among his brethren seems to have been owing to his prevalence in prayer, 1 Chronicles 4:9-10

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
JABEZ

ja'-bez (ya`bets, "sorrow" ("height)):

(1) Place: A town probably in the territory of Judah, occupied by scribes (1 Chronicles 2:55). For an ingenious reconstruction of the passage see EB, under the word

(2) Person: The head of a family of Judah, noted for his "honorable" character, though "his mother bare him with sorrow" (1 Chronicles 4:9, 10), ya`bets being interpreted as if it stood for ya`tsebh, "he causes pain." The same play upon words recurs in his prayer, "that it be not to my sorrow!" His request was granted, "and the sorrow implied by his ominous name was averted by prayer" (Dummelow, in the place cited.).

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Affiction.

(1.) A descendant of Judah, of whom it is recorded that "God granted him that which he requested" (1 Chronicles 4:9, 10).

(2.) A place inhabited by several families of the scribes (1 Chronicles 2:55).

Strong's Hebrew
3258. Yabets -- a descendant of Judah, also a place in Judah
... << 3257, 3258. Yabets. 3259 >>. a descendant of Judah, also a place in Judah.
Transliteration: Yabets Phonetic Spelling: (yah-bates') Short Definition: Jabez. ...
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