Helah’s sons: Zereth, Zohar,[a] and Ethnan. Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah,[b] and the families of Aharhel son of Harum.

Jabez[c] was more honored than his brothers. His mother named him Jabez and said, “I gave birth to him in pain.”

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Footnotes

  1. 4:7 Alt Hb tradition reads Izhar
  2. 4:8 Or Hazzobebah
  3. 4:9 In Hb, the name Jabez sounds like “he causes pain.”

And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.

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

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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