Ja'bez. (sorrow).
1. Apparently, a place at which the families of the scribes resided, who belonged to the families of the Kenites. 1 Chronicles 2:55.
2. The name occurs again in the genealogies of Judah, 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, in a passage of remarkable detail, inserted in a genealogy again connected with Bethlehem. 1 Chronicles 4:4.