- Original: יעבּץ - Transliteration: Ya`bets - Phonetic: yah-bates' - Definition: Jabez = sorrow n pr m 1. the head of a Calebite family n pr loc 2. a town in Judah apparently near Bethlehem - Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to grieve - TWOT entry: None - Part(s) of speech: - Strong's: From an unused root probably meaning to grieve; sorrowful; Jabets the name of an Israelite and also of a place in Palestine: - Jabez. Total KJV Occurrences: 4 • Jabez, 4 1 Chronicles 2:55; 1 Chronicles 4:9(2); 1 Chronicles 4:10