And Jabez was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow. (1 Chronicles 4:9)
Jabez was also the name of a town of Judah in which certain families of scribes of the lineage of Salma, the son of Hur, lived (
ch. 2:50, 54, 55).
More honourable than his brethren.