Strong's #3258: Ya`bets (pronounced yah-bates')

from an unused root probably meaning to grieve; sorrowful; Jabets, the name of an Israelite, and also of a place in Palestine: -Jabez.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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ya‛bêts

Jabez = "sorrow"

1) the head of a Calebite family (noun proper masculine)

2) a town in Judah apparently near Bethlehem (noun proper locative)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from an unused root probably meaning to grieve

Usage:

This word is used 4 times:

 

1 Chronicles 2:55: "And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These"
1 Chronicles 4:9: " And Jabez was more honorable and his mother called his name"
1 Chronicles 4:9: "and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bore"
1 Chronicles 4:10: " And Jabez called on the God saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed,"