1 Chronicles 4:10 meaning and explanation
And Jabez called out to the God of Israel, “If only You would bless me and enlarge my territory! May Your hand be with me and keep me from harm, so that I will be free from pain.” And God granted the request of Jabez.
1 Chronicles 4:10, Berean Standard Bible
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Jabez appears only here, a brief pause in a long list of names. The narrator has just told us his mother named him Jabez because she bore him in pain, a wordplay on the Hebrew yatsar, meaning pain or sorrow.
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