And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.
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Gill's Exposition
And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren,.... The Targum adds,"and wiser in the law than his brethren;''or he might be a man of great wealth and riches, or of great strength and courage, all…
Barnes' Notes
It is remarkable that Jabez should be introduced without description, or patronymic, as if a well-known personage. We can only suppose that he was known to those for whom Chronicles was written,…
Adam Clarke
And Jabez was more honorable - This whole account is variously understood by some of the principal versions. I shall subjoin a translation of each.
Septuagint. -
"And Igabes was more glorious than…
One reason, no doubt, why Ezra is here most particular in the register of the tribe of Judah is because it was that tribe which, with its appendages, Simeon, Benjamin, and Levi, made up the kingdom of…
Cambridge Bible
The connexion of this verse also does not appear, but according to Targ. (on 1Ch 4:13) Jabez= Othniel, the nephew of Caleb.
And Jabezetc.] Render, And Jabez came to be hononred above his brethren, but…
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