1 Chronicles 4:9
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother named him Jabez, saying, 'Because I bore him in pain.'
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King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
KJV1611 – Modern English
And Jabez was more honorable than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
And Jabez{H3258} was more honorable{H3513} than his brethren:{H251} and his mother{H517} called{H7121} his name{H8034} Jabez,{H3258} saying,{H559} Because I bare{H3205} him with sorrow.{H6090}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
And Jabez{H3258} was more honourable{H3513}{(H8737)} than his brethren{H251}: and his mother{H517} called{H7121}{(H8804)} his name{H8034} Jabez{H3258}, saying{H559}{(H8800)}, Because I bare{H3205}{(H8804)} him with sorrow{H6090}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iaebes was more honorable then his brethre, and his mother called him Iaebes, for she sayde: I haue borne him with trouble.
Geneva Bible (1560)
But Iabez was more honourable then his brethren: and his mother called his name Iabez, saying, Because I bare him in sorowe.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
And Iabes was more honorable then his brethren: And his mother called his name Iabes, saying: because I bare him with sorowe.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
Webster's Bible (1833)
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, Because I bore him with sorrow.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
And Jabez is honoured above his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, `Because I have brought forth with grief.'
American Standard Version (1901)
And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
American Standard Version (1901)
And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
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.
World English Bible (2000)
Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow."
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Jabez was more respected than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, for she said,“I experienced pain when I gave birth to him.”
Referenced Verses
- Gen 34:19 : 19 The young man did not delay in doing the thing, because he delighted in Jacob’s daughter. Now he was the most respected of all his father’s household.
- Gen 35:18 : 18 As her life was slipping away, because she was dying, she named him Ben-Oni, but his father called him Benjamin.
- 1 Sam 4:21 : 21 She named the boy Ichabod, saying, 'The glory has departed from Israel,' because the Ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
- 1 Chr 7:23 : 23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah because evil had come upon his family.
- Isa 43:4 : 4 Since you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life.
- Acts 17:11 : 11 The Bereans were more noble-minded than those in Thessalonica, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
- Gen 3:16 : 16 To the woman He said, 'I will greatly increase your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.'
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- 1 Chr 4:10-112 verses83%
10 Jabez called upon the God of Israel, saying, 'Oh, that You would bless me indeed and enlarge my territory! Let Your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain.' And God granted his request.
11 Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, fathered Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.
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8 Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel, the son of Harum.
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3 When I was a son to my father, tender and the only one in the eyes of my mother,
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17 The women living there said, 'Naomi has a son!' And they named him Obed. He was the father of Jesse, the father of David.
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27 I prayed for this boy, and the LORD has granted me what I asked of Him.
- Jer 20:14-152 verses65%
14 Cursed be the day I was born! May the day my mother gave birth to me not be blessed.
15 Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, 'A male child has been born to you,' and made him very glad.
- 1 Chr 1:22-232 verses65%
22 Ebal, Abimael, and Sheba.
23 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.
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20 Joktan was the father of Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, and Jerah.
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22 Obed fathered Jesse, and Jesse fathered David.
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29 But then he pulled his hand back, and his brother came out. She said, 'What a breach you have made for yourself!' So he was named Perez.
- Judg 11:1-22 verses64%
1 Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was his father.
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10 Woe to me, my mother, that you gave birth to me—a man of strife and contention to the whole land! I have neither lent nor borrowed, yet everyone curses me.
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10 In her deep anguish, Hannah prayed to the LORD, weeping bitterly.
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21 She named the boy Ichabod, saying, 'The glory has departed from Israel,' because the Ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
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24 Most blessed of women be Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, most blessed of tent-dwelling women.
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55 The clans of scribes who lived at Jabez were the Tirathites, Shimeathites, and Sucathites. These were the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.
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9 By his wife Hodesh, he fathered Jobab, Zibia, Mesha, and Malcham.
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9 He gives the barren woman a home, making her a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord!
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6 His father had never rebuked him by asking, "Why have you done this?" Adonijah was also very handsome, and he was born after Absalom.
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23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. He named him Beriah because evil had come upon his family.
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3 From there, David went to Mizpeh in Moab and said to the king of Moab, 'Please let my father and my mother come and stay with you until I know what God will do for me.'
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60 But his mother responded, 'No! He will be called John.'
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14 I behaved as if they were my friend or brother; I mourned as one mourning for a mother, bowed down in sorrow.
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22 Jokim, the men of Chozeba, Joash, and Saraph, ruled in Moab and returned to Lehem. These records are ancient.
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29 He named him Noah, saying, "This one will comfort us in our work and the painful labor of our hands, caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed."