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]), meaning "he makes sorrowful", because his birth was difficult.
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 Bunting (1779–1858), English Methodist
- Jabez Burns (1805–1876), English nonconformist divine and Christian philosophical writer
- Jabez Coon (1869–1935), member of the Australian House of Representatives
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825–1903), lawyer, soldier, U.S. Congressman, college professor and administrator, diplomat, and Confederate officer
- Jabez Darnell (1884–1950), English footballer
- Jabez Hamlin (1709–1791), Connecticut politician and judge
- Jabez Delano Hammond (1778–1855), American physician, lawyer, author and politician
- Jabez Carter Hornblower (1744–1814), English pioneer of steam power
- Jabez Huntington (1719-1786), Major General in the Connecticut state forces, Connecticut Council of Safety member, merchant from Norwich, Connecticut
- Jabez W. Huntington (1788–1847), U.S. Representative and Senator from Connecticut
- Jabez Young Jackson (1790–1839), U.S. Representative from Georgia
- Jabez Leftwich (1765–1855), Representative from Virginia
- Jabez M. Smith, state legislator in Arkansas
- Jabez Melville Smith, state legislator in Mississippi
- Jabez Bunting Snowball (1837–1907), Canadian politician and businessman, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
- J. Curry Street (1906–1989), American physicist, co-discover of muons
- Jabez G. Sutherland (1825–1902), Representative from Michigan and judge
- Jabez Upham (1764–1811), Representative from Massachusetts
- Jabez Vodrey (1795–1861), first English potter west of the Appalachian Mountains of North America
- Jabez Waterhouse (1821–1891), English-born Australian Methodist minister
- Jabez H. Wells (1853–1930), American politician and curler
Fictional characters
- Jabez Clegg, the eponymous character in Isabella Banks' 1876 novel The Manchester Man and its 1920 film adaptation
- Jabez Dexter, the villain of the 1949 Wonder Woman comic Sensation Comics #87
- Jabez North, the villain of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel The Trail of the Serpent
- Jabez Potter, in Alice B. Emerson's Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill (1913), the first of a 30-book series
- Jabez Stone, the protagonist of the short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and its film adaptations
- Jabez Stump, a secondary character in the 1989 Redwall series novel Mattimeo and the second season of the Redwall animated television show, which is also called Mattimeo
- Jabez Wilson, a main character in the Sherlock Holmes short story "The Red-Headed League"
- Jabez, a boat rental operator on the Thames in Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog
Surname
- Barzillai ben Baruch Jabez, Turkish Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez (15th century-16th century), Spanish-Jewish theologian
References
- Marshall, I. H. (ed.). "Jabez". New Bible Dictionary (3rd ed.). IVP.
- Keil, C. F.; Delitsch, F. (1996) . Commentary on the Old Testament. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers Inc.. 10 vols.
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