Echoes of Genesis in 1 Chronicles 4:9–10: An Intertextual ...

here as “pain” (so JPS Tanakh, NASB, NIV, NLT, NKJV, [N]RSV; KJV “sorrow”). Japhet seems to follow this trend, and considers the discrepancies among the pronunciation “Jabez,” the lexical tendency of the root . bc(, and the note about Jabez’s prosperity to be the central problematic of the story. ................
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