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# יַעְבֵּץ

Biblical Hebrew

**Jabez** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Jabez [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d1_5b5_5bc_5e5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַעְבֵּץ: pr. Jabez loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d1_5b5_5bc_5e5/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n. pr. m. Jabez, a man of the Calebites, 1 Ch 4:9(×2), 10 (where interpr. as akin to עצב; on position of this family cf. MeyJudenthum 118); 𝔊 Ιγαβης, A Ιαγβης, Γαβης, GL Ιαβιης, Ιαβηλ, Ιαβεις. loc. in Judah, appar. near Bethlehem 1 Ch 2:55 (cf. v 54); 𝔊 Γαμες, A Γαβης, 𝔊L Ιαβις.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Jabez (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 2:55](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.55/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.2.55/#tree)

וּמִשְׁפְּח֤וֹת סֹפְרִים֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י יַעְבֵּ֔ץ תִּרְעָתִ֥ים שִׁמְעָתִ֖ים שׂוּכָתִ֑ים הֵ֚מָּה הַקִּינִ֣ים הַבָּאִ֔ים מֵחַמַּ֖ת אֲבִ֥י בֵית־רֵכָֽב׃ס

*Word for word:* and.\[the\] clans of.\[the\].Sophrites \[who.were\].dwelling of.Jabez \[were.the\].Tirathites \[the\].Shimeathites \[the\].Sucathites they \[were\].the Kenites \[who\] came from Hammath the.father of.Beth Rechab

*JPS 1917:* And the families of scribes that dwelt at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, the Sucathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d1_5b5_5bc_5e5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b7_5e2_5b0_5d1_5b5_5bc_5e5/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).