1 Chronicles 4:9 meaning and explanation
Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”
1 Chronicles 4:9, Berean Standard Bible
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The Chronicler is listing the descendants of Judah, and here he pauses over a man named Jabez, otherwise unknown. His mother named him Ya'bets because, she said, she bore him in pain, and the Hebrew word sounds like the word for pain or sorrow.
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