STRONGS NUMBER H3258


Word Summary
Yabets: a descendant of Judah, also a place in Judah
Original Word: יַעְבֵּץ
Transliteration: Yabets
Phonetic Spelling: (yah-bates')
Part of Speech: proper name; masculine person; location
Short Definition: a descendant of Judah, also a place in Judah
Meaning: Jabez -- a descendant of Judah, also a place in Judah
Strong's Concordance
Jabets, an Israelite, and also of a place in Palestine

From an unused root probably meaning to grieve; sorrowful; Jabets, the name of an Israelite, and also of a place in Palestine:

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3258. Yabets

יַעְבֵּץproper name

1. masculine person Jabez, a man of the Calebites, 1 Chronicles 4:9 (twice in verse); 4:10 (where interpreted as akin to עצב‎; on position of this family compare MeyJudenthum 118); ᵐ5Ιγαβης A Ιαγβης, Γαβης, GL Ιαβιης, Ιαβηλ, Ιαβεις.

2. location in Judah, apparently near Bethlehem 1 Chronicles 2:55 (compare 2:54); ᵐ5Γαμες A Γαβης ᵐ5L Ιαβις.