Jabez
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his
mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with
sorrow....
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In the I Book of Chronicles Jabez is a well-respected man
(ancestor in the lineage of the kings' tribe of Judah) whose
prayer to God for blessing was answered, see 1 Chronicles
4:9-10. Moreover the author paused in this long list to give
Jabez a place of honour in the long list of Kings and
lineage.
This short passage of scripture came to the ...
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And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou
wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine
hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep [me] from
evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that
which he requested....
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And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the
Tirathites, the Shimeathites, [and] Suchathites. These [are]
the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of
Rechab....
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ja'-bez (ya`bets, "sorrow" ("height)):
(1) Place: An unidentified town probably in the territory of
Judah, occupied by scribes (1 Ch 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 Ch 4:9,10), ...
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-1. A city of the tribe of Judah
1Ch 2:55
-2. The head of a family
1Ch 4:9,10...
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(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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affiction. (1.) A descendant of Judah, of whom it is recorded
that "God granted him that which he requested" (1 Chr.
4:9, 10).
(2.) A place inhabited by several families of the
scribes (1
Chr. 2:55)....
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