Bible Location
Meaning: sorrow; trouble · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Jabez was the place where families of scribes lived according to Chronicles. It is important because it preserves a rare glimpse of scholarly or administrative family communities tied to a specific location. First appears in 1 Chr 2:55.1
AI summary: Jabez matters because Chronicles remembers not only kings and warriors but also crafts and learned households rooted in place. The site belongs to Judah's social and vocational memory.1
A place inhabited by several families of the scribes (1 Chr. 2:55). 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.