Smith’s Bible Dictionary

Jabez

(sorrow).

Apparently a place at which the families of the scribes resided who belonged to the families of the Kenites. (1 Chronicles 2:55)

The name occurs again in the genealogies of Judah, (1 Chronicles 4:9,10) in a passage of remarkable detail inserted in a genealogy again connected with Bethlehem. ver. 4.

Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith (1863). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.