1 Chronicles 4:9 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁹ And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Jabez was honorable above his brothers; but his mother named him Jabez [sorrow maker], saying, Because I bore him in pain.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ And Jabez was more honorable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.

Common English Bible

⁹ Jabez was more honored than his brothers. His mother had named him Jabez, saying, “I bore him in pain.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ But Jabez was renown, more so than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, "For I bore him in sorrow."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And Jabes was more honourable than any of his brethren, and his mother called his name Jabes, saying: Because I bore him with sorrow.

1 Chronicles 4:9 Cross References

Genesis 3:16

Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Genesis 34:19

And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was honoured above all the house of his father.

Genesis 35:18

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

1 Chronicles 4:10

And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it be not to my sorrow! And God granted him that which he requested.

1 Chronicles 4:8

And Hakkoz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

1 Chronicles 7:23

And he went in to his wife, and she conceived, and bare a son, and he called his name Beriah, because it went evil with his house.

Proverbs 23:25

Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.

Isaiah 43:4

Since thou hast been precious in my sight, and honourable, and I have loved thee; therefore will I give men for thee, and peoples for thy life.

Acts 17:11

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, examining the scriptures daily, whether these things were so.

1 Samuel 4:21

And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.