Dict: smith - JABEZ

smith:

JABEZ - J>@ - (sorrow). Apparently a place at which the families of the scribes resided who belonged to the families of the Kenites. ( kjv@1Chronicles:2:55) The name occurs again in the genealogies of Judah, ( kjv@1Chronicles:4:9-10) in a passage of remarkable detail inserted in a genealogy again connected with Bethlehem. ver. 4.