Jabez in Smiths Bible Dictionary

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

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