![]() ![]() We must see what it says straight from scripture and not paraphrase. You would be surprised how many people have read only paraphrased or personal versions of the prayer of Jabez. ![]() We get so caught up in the here, and now, we make a hasted decision that can affect both ours and other people’s futures. This still happens to us in this day and age. Not 100% clear.Īll we know is that she was so consumed at that moment that she labeled her child sorrow and basically set his destiny up. It could also imply that there was some other kind of grievance she experienced outside of the birth pain that caused her to name him Jabez. Now, it seems from what we read that she had a difficult labor, and that’s what gave him his name. It’s a real bummer that Jabez’s mom felt that she should name her son that. יַעְבֵּץ Yaʿbets, yah-bates´ from an unused root probably meaning to grieve sorrowful Here is the meaning in Hebrew ( Strong’s Concordance)ģ258. This is why you see God change names like Abram to Abraham (Genesis 17:5). And a lot of time children were named after what the mother or father were experiencing at the time.īut names were also a BIG deal to God. ![]() It implied what the parents believed the child would become or their destiny in life. In Hebrew, culture names were a BIG deal. And that’s exactly what we are going to do today. But if we really study and look at these two verses, we can learn a ton.
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