1 Chronicles 4:9 BSB

1 Chronicles 4:9

Now Jabez was more honorable than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

KJV

And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

⋯

Commentary

3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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, either by tradition, or by writings which have perished. In 1Ch 4:10 Jabez alludes to his name, “sorrowful” (margin): “Grant that the grief implied in my name may not come upon me!”

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The most remarkable person in this paragraph is Jabez. It is not said whose son he was, nor does it appear in what age he lived; but, it should seem, he was the founder of one of the families of Aharhel, mentioned

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

To whom he prayed, not to any of the gods of the Gentiles; no, he called on the God of Israel, the living and true God, who alone can hear and answer prayer, and in prayer had an eye to him as the God of Israel, a God in covenant with his people, the God with whom Jacob wrestled and prevailed and was thence called Israel. What was the nature of his prayer.

Voices on this verse

loading…

Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיְהִ֣י	vay.Hi	and he was	H1961 →
יַעְבֵּ֔ץ	ya'.Betz	Jabez	H3258 →
נִכְבָּ֖ד	nikh.Bad	honored	H3513 →
מֵאֶחָ֑יו	me.'e.Chav	more than brothers his	H251 →
וְאִמּ֗וֹ	ve.'i.Mo	and mother his	H517 →
קָרְאָ֨ה	ka.re.'Ah	she had called	H7121 →
שְׁמ֤וֹ	she.Mo	name his	H8034 →
יַעְבֵּץ֙	ya'.Betz	Jabez	H3258 →
לֵאמֹ֔ר	le.Mor	<to> saying	H559 →
כִּ֥י	ki	for	H3588 →
יָלַ֖דְתִּי	ya.Lad.ti	I gave birth	H3205 →
בְּעֹֽצֶב׃	be.'O.tzev	in pain	H6090 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
leads to
- Titus 2:5
  to be self-controlled, pure, managers of their households, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, so that the word of God will not be discredited.
- Colossians 3:18
  Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
- 1 Corinthians 11:3
  But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
- Ephesians 5:22–24
  Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
- 1 Timothy 2:15
  Women, however, will be saved through childbearing, if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.
Through
1 Samuel 4:21
And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.
leads to
- Psalms 26:8
  O LORD, I love the house where You dwell, the place where Your glory resides.
- Psalms 78:61
  He delivered His strength to captivity, and His splendor to the hand of the adversary.
- Jeremiah 2:11
  Has a nation ever changed its gods, though they are no gods at all? Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

About 1 Chronicles

Cedars Are Cut Down for the Jerusalem Temple — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

1 Chronicles: the study guide →Read chapter 4 →The featured study →

Continue: 1 Chronicles 4 →

01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About 1 Chronicles

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About 1 Chronicles