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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - יַעְבֵּץ

יַעְבֵּץ

H3258

Transliteration: Yaʻbêts

Pronunciation: yah-bates'

Definition: Jabez


Original: יעבּץ

Transliteration: ya‛bêts

Phonetic: yah-bates'

BDB Definition:

Jabez = "sorrow"
  1. the head of a Calebite family (noun proper masculine)
  2. a town in Judah apparently near Bethlehem (noun proper locative)

Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to grieve

TWOT entry: None

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