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
Place meaning
sorrow; trouble
Coordinates
31.71, 35.21
First appears
1 Chr 2:55
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
Place meaning
sorrow; trouble
Latitude
31.71
Longitude
35.21
Bible references
1
A place inhabited by several families of the scribes (1 Chr. 2:55). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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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.