1 Chronicles 4:9
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
KJV
Fuit autem Jabes inclytus præ fratribus suis, et mater ejus vocavit nomen illius Jabes, dicens : Quia peperi eum in dolore.
Vulgate
Καὶ ἦν Ἰγαβὴς ἔνδοξος ὑπὲρ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἡ μήτηρ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἰγαβὴς λέγουσα Ἔτεκον ὡς γάβης.
LXX
And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
ASV
וַ/יְהִ֣י יַעְבֵּ֔ץ נִכְבָּ֖ד מֵ/אֶחָ֑י/ו וְ/אִמּ֗/וֹ קָרְאָ֨ה שְׁמ֤/וֹ יַעְבֵּץ֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר כִּ֥י יָלַ֖דְתִּי בְּ/עֹֽצֶב
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Chr 7:23 — And when he went in to his wife, she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.
- 1Sam 4:21 — And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
- Acts 17:11 — These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
- Gen 3:16 — Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
- Gen 34:19 — And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob’s daughter: and he was more honourable than all the house of his father.
- Gen 35:18 — And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.