Jabez

William Smith's Bible Dictionary

(sorrow).


• Apparently a place at which the families of the scribes resided who belonged to the families of the Kenites. (1 Chronicles 2:55)

• 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.

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