1 Chronicles 4:9

World English Bible (2000)

Jabez was more honorable than his brothers: and his mother named him Jabez, saying, "Because I bore him with sorrow."

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 34:19 : 19 The young man didn't wait to do this thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he was honored above all the house of his father.
  • Gen 35:18 : 18 It happened, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.
  • 1 Sam 4:21 : 21 She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel;" because the ark of God was taken, 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 bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
  • Isa 43:4 : 4 Since you have been precious and honored in my sight, and I have loved you; therefore I will give people in your place, and nations instead of your life.
  • Acts 17:11 : 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.
  • Gen 3:16 : 16 To the woman he said, "I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth. In pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you."

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  • 83%

    10 Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that your hand might be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that it not be to my sorrow!" God granted him that which he requested.

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

  • 8 Hakkoz became the father of Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

  • 3 For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

  • 17 The women, her neighbors, gave him a name, saying, "There is a son born to Naomi;" and they named him Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

  • 27 For this child I prayed; and Yahweh has given me my petition which I asked of him.

  • Jer 20:14-15
    2 verses
    65%

    14 Cursed is the day in which I was born: don't let the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.

    15 Cursed is the man who brought news to my father, saying, A boy is born to you; making him very glad.

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    22 and Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,

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

  • 35 She conceived again, and bore a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.

  • 20 Joktan became 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 It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.

  • Judg 11:1-2
    2 verses
    64%

    1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor, and he was the son of a prostitute: and Gilead became the father of Jephthah.

    2 Gilead's wife bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman."

  • 10 Woe is me, my mother, that you have borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have not lent, neither have men lent to me; [yet] everyone of them does curse me.

  • 25 Let your father and your mother be glad! Let her who bore you rejoice!

  • 10 She was in bitterness of soul, and prayed to Yahweh, and wept bitterly.

  • 21 She named the child Ichabod, saying, "The glory has departed from Israel;" because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.

  • 24 "Jael shall be blessed above women, the wife of Heber the Kenite; blessed shall she be above women in the tent.

  • 55 The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

  • 9 He became the father of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,

  • 9 He settles the barren woman in her home, as a joyful mother of children. Praise Yah!

  • 27 For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband."

  • 6 His father had not displeased him at any time in saying, "Why have you done so?" and he was also a very handsome man; and he was born after Absalom.

  • 23 He went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bore a son, and he named him Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

  • 3 David went there to Mizpeh of Moab, and he said to the king of Moab, "Please let my father and my mother come out with you, until I know what God will do for me."

  • 2 Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

  • 60 His mother answered, "Not so; but he will be called John."

  • 17 because he didn't kill me from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

  • 14 I behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother. I bowed down mourning, as one who mourns his mother.

  • 22 and Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had dominion in Moab, and Jashubilehem. The records are ancient.

  • 29 and he named him Noah, saying, "This same will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, because of the ground which Yahweh has cursed."