Bible Person
Meaning: sorrow; trouble · Male · 2 cross references
Jabez is a Judahite figure remembered for an unusually personal prayer within the genealogies of Chronicles. He belongs to the clan memory of Judah, but stands out because the record pauses to tell a brief spiritual story. First appears in 1 Chr 4:9.1
AI summary: Jabez matters because the cross references interrupt a genealogy to highlight his plea for blessing, enlargement, God's hand, and protection from harm. That pause shows that biblical genealogies can preserve not only descent but also moments of spiritual character and divine response. Taken together, the material presents Jabez as a Judahite figure whose remembered prayer gives unusual devotional depth to the genealogical record.1
Central Figure
Jabez
Meaning: sorrow; trouble
A descendant of Judah, of whom it is recorded that “God granted him that which he requested” (1 Chr.
A descendant of Judah, of whom it is recorded that “God granted him that which he requested” (1 Chr. 4:9, 10). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person 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.