Jabez
Jabez ( Hebrew יַעְבֵּץ) is a person in the Bible. The meaning of the name is given as "He makes pain" or "sad, sorrowful". According to 1 Chr 4,9-10 GNB , Jabez was a respected man from the Israelite tribe of Judah . Noteworthy is his prayer for blessings. There is no further information about Jabez in the Bible . Bruce Wilkinson wrote a bestselling devotional book on prayer.
The Bible also mentions a city in Judah 1 Chr 2,55 GNB , mainly inhabited by the families of the writers .
It is not known whether there is a connection between the biblical person and the place of the same name.
Literature (exegesis)
- Sara Japhet : 1 Chronik (= Herder's Theological Commentary on the Old Testament ), Freiburg / Breisgau, Basel, Vienna, 2002.
- R. Christopher Heard: Echoes of Genesis in 1 Chronicles 4: 9-10: An Intertextual and Contextual Reading of Jabez's Prayer. In: The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures, volume 4: article 2 (2002), to be found at http://www.purl.org/jhs , currently leads to http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles /article_24.htm
- Gary N. Knoppers: " Great Among His Brothers," but Who Is He? Heterogeinity in the Composition of Judah . In: JHS volume 3 (2000-2001), to be found at http://www.purl.org/jhs , currently leads to http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article_16.htm
- Yoshitaka Kobayashi: Art. Jabez (Place) , in: The Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol. III, HJ, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, Auckland, 1992, 595.
Literature (impact history)
- Bruce Wilkinson: The Prayer of Jabez. Breakthrough to a blessed life , 4th edition, Asslar 2002 = German translation by:
- Bruce H. Wilkinson, David Kopp: The Prayer of Jabez. Breaking Through to the Blessed Life , 37th ed., Sisters (Oregon) 2001.
- Richard Schultz: Praying Jabez's Prayer: Turning on Obscure Biblical Narrative Into a Miracle-Working Mantra . A Review Article, in: Trinity Journal 24 NS (2003) 113-119.