1 Chronicles 4:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 34:19 : 19 And without loss of time the young man did as they said, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was the noblest of his father's house.
  • Gen 35:18 : 18 And in the hour when her life went from her (for death came to her), she gave the child the name Ben-oni: but his father gave him the name of Benjamin.
  • 1 Sam 4:21 : 21 And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
  • 1 Chr 7:23 : 23 After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.
  • Isa 43:4 : 4 Because of your value in my eyes, you have been honoured, and loved by me; so I will give men for you, and peoples for your life.
  • Acts 17:11 : 11 Now these were more noble than the Jews of Thessalonica, for they gave serious attention to the word, searching in the holy Writings every day, to see if these things were so.
  • Gen 3:16 : 16 To the woman he said, Great will be your pain in childbirth; in sorrow will your children come to birth; still your desire will be for your husband, but he will be your master.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 83%

    10 And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.

    11 And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

  • 8 And Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

  • 3 For I was a son to my father, a gentle and an only one to my mother.

  • 17 And the women who were her neighbours gave it a name, saying, Naomi has a child; and they gave him the name of Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

  • 27 My prayer was for this child; and the Lord has given him to me in answer to my request:

  • Jer 20:14-15
    2 verses
    65%

    14 A curse on the day of my birth: let there be no blessing on the day when my mother had me.

    15 A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.

  • 65%

    22 And Ebal and Abimael and Sheba

    23 And Ophir and Havilah and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

  • 35 And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son: and she said, This time I will give praise to the Lord: so he was named Judah; after this she had no more children for a time.

  • 20 And Joktan was the father of Almodad and Sheleph and Hazarmaveth and Jerah

  • 22 And Obed became the father of Jesse, and Jesse became the father of David.

  • 29 But then he took his hand back again, and his brother came first to birth: and the woman said, What an opening you have made for yourself! So he was named Perez.

  • Judg 11:1-2
    2 verses
    64%

    1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.

    2 And Gilead's wife gave birth to sons, and when her sons became men, they sent Jephthah away, saying, You have no part in the heritage of our father's house, for you are the son of another woman.

  • 10 Sorrow is mine, my mother, because you have given birth to me, a cause of fighting and argument in all the earth! I have not made men my creditors and I am not in debt to any, but every one of them is cursing me.

  • 25 Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.

  • 10 And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord.

  • 21 And she gave the child the name of Ichabod, saying, The glory has gone from Israel: because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

  • 24 Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents!

  • 55 And the families of scribes who were living at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites, the offspring of Hammath, the father of the family of Rechab.

  • 9 And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam.

  • 9 He gives the unfertile woman a family, making her a happy mother of children. Give praise to the Lord.

  • 27 For it is in the Writings, You who have never given birth, be glad; give cries of joy, you who have had no birth-pains; for the children of her who has been given up by her husband are more than those of the woman who has a husband.

  • 6 Now all his life his father had never gone against him or said to him, Why have you done so? and he was a very good-looking man, and younger than Absalom.

  • 23 After that, he had connection with his wife, and she became with child and gave birth to a son, to whom his father gave the name of Beriah, because trouble had come on his family.

  • 3 And from there David went to Mizpeh in the land of Moab: and he said to the king of Moab, Let my father and mother come and make their living-place with you till it is clear to me what God will do for me.

  • 2 The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;

  • 60 But his mother made answer and said, No, his name is John.

  • 17 Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.

  • 14 My behaviour was as if it had been my friend or my brother: I was bent low in grief like one whose mother is dead.

  • 22 And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who were rulers in Moab, and went back to Beth-lehem. And the records are very old.

  • 29 And he gave him the name of Noah, saying, Truly, he will give us rest from our trouble and the hard work of our hands, because of the earth which was cursed by God.