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Jabez

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.

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

Pen name

  • Eric Nicol (1919–2011), Canadian author, who early wrote under the pen name "Jabez"

Fictional characters

References