This article is about the personal name. For the unincorporated community, see Jabez, Kentucky.
Jabez or Jabes is a male name and surname derived from the biblical Jabez, of whom the Books of Chronicles says his mother named him Jabez (Hebrew יַעְבֵּץ [ya'betz]),[1] meaning "he makes sorrowful", because his birth was difficult.[2]
Later people with the name include:
Pen name
Eric Nicol (1919–2011), Canadian author, who early wrote under the pen name "Jabez"
Given name
People
Jabez Balfour (1843–1916), British businessman, Liberal Party politician and fraudster
Jabez A. Bostwick (1830–1892), American businessman who was a founding partner of Standard Oil
Jabez Bowen, Jr. (1739–1815), deputy governor of Rhode Island, militia colonel during the American Revolutionary War and Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
Jabez Bryce (1935–2010), Anglican Archbishop of Polynesia and the first Pacific Islander to become an Anglican bishop
Jabez Stump, a secondary character in the 1989 Redwall series novel Mattimeo and the second season of the Redwallanimated television show, which is also called Mattimeo
Jabez Wilson, a main character in the Sherlock Holmes short story "The Red-Headed League"
^Marshall, I. H. (ed.). "Jabez". New Bible Dictionary (3rd ed.). IVP.
^Keil, C. F.; Delitsch, F. (1996) [reprinted from the English edition of T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1866-91]. Commentary on the Old Testament. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers Inc.. 10 vols.
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