H3258 H3258
Jabez, a man of prayer and a town in Judah near Bethlehem
A name borne by both a person and a place in the tribe of Judah. The man Jabez is famous for his brief but fervent prayer in 1 Chr 4:9–10, where the text connects his name to the word for pain (עֹצֶב), noting that his mother 'bore him in sorrow.' Despite this inauspicious naming, Jabez called on God to bless and enlarge his territory, and God granted his request. The place Jabez (1 Chr 2:55) appears to be a town in Judah near Bethlehem where scribal families settled.
Senses
1. sense 1 — A proper name for both a Calebite man renowned for his prayer and a Judahite town associated with scribal families. The personal name is folk-etymologized from עֶצֶב ('pain') in 1 Chr 4:9, where his mother named him for the sorrow of his birth—yet he transcended that name through prayer (v. 10). The place name in 1 Chr 2:55 locates families of scribes (סֹפְרִים) at Jabez, near Bethlehem. German renders it 'Jabez,' English 'Ya'bets,' and Spanish 'Yabets,' all transliterating the Hebrew יַעְבֵּץ. 4×
AR["يَعبيص"]·ben["যাবেস", "যাবেসের"]·DE["Jabez"]·EN["Ya'bets"]·FR["[יעבץ]"]·heb["יעבץ"]·HI["याबेस"]·ID["Yaebes"]·IT["Jabets"]·jav["Yabès"]·KO["야베스"]·PT["Ya'bets"]·RU["Тирати", "Явец"]·ES["Yabets"]·SW["Yabesi"]·TR["Yabets", "Yabets'in"]·urd["یعبیص", "یعبیص-نے"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† יַעְבֵּץ n. pr. 1. m. Jabez, a man of the Calebites, 1 Ch 4:9(×2), 10 (where interpr. as akin to עצב; on position of this family cf. MeyJudenthum 118); 𝔊 Ιγαβης, A Ιαγβης, Γαβης, GL Ιαβιης, Ιαβηλ, Ιαβεις. 2. loc. in Judah, appar. near Bethlehem 1 Ch 2:55 (cf. v 54); 𝔊 Γαμες, A Γαβης, 𝔊L Ιαβις.