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 ), meaning "he makes sorrowful", because his birth was difficult.. 10 vols.
People with the name include:
People Given name Jabez Balfour (1843–1916), British businessman, politician and fraudster Jabez A. Bostwick (1830–1892), American businessman and founding partner of Standard Oil Jabez Bowen (1739–1815), American politician and jurist from Rhode Island Jabez Bryce (1935–2010), Anglican Archbishop of Polynesia and the first Pacific Islander to become an Anglican bishop Jabez Bunting (1779–1858), English Methodist leader Jabez Burns (1805–1876), English nonconformist divine and Christian philosophical writer Jabez Coon (1869–1935), Australian politician Jabez L. M. Curry (1825–1903), American politician, lawyer, soldier, college professor and administrator, diplomat, and Confederate officer Jabez Darnell (1884–1950), English footballer Jabez Hamlin (1709–1791), American politician and jurist from Connecticut Jabez Delano Hammond (1778–1855), American physician, lawyer, author and politician Jabez Carter Hornblower (1744–1814), English pioneer of steam power Jabez Huntington (colonist) (1719–1786), American politician and major general from Connecticut Jabez W. Huntington (1788–1847), American politician from Connecticut Jabez Young Jackson (1790–1839), American politician from Georgia Jabez Leftwich (1765–1855), American politician from Virginia Jabez M. Smith, American politician from Arkansas Jabez Melville Smith, American politician from Mississippi Jabez Bunting Snowball (1837–1907), Canadian politician and businessman from New Brunswick J. Curry Street (1906–1989), American physicist, co-discover of muons Jabez G. Sutherland (1825–1902), American politician and jurist from Michigan Jabez Upham (1764–1811), American politician 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
Nickname Jacob Jabez Wolffe (1876–1943), Scottish long-distance swimmer and author
Surname Barzillai ben Baruch Jabez, Turkish Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Isaac Jabez (died 1547), physician and rabbi in Thessaloniki Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez (1438–1539), Spanish-Jewish theologian
Pen name Eric Nicol (1919–2011), Canadian author, who early wrote under the pen name "Jabez"
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 The Trail of the Serpent, Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel 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 Jabez Wilson, a main character in "The Red-Headed League", a Sherlock Holmes short story Jabez, a boat rental operator in To Say Nothing of the Dog, a novel by Connie Willis
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