4:9–10*. Etiological Account of Jabez ■ 9* Jabez was honored more than his brothers; and his mother named him Jabez, saying, “Because I bore him in pain”: The only other mother who names her child in the genealogies is Maacah (1 Chr 7:16*); here the father is not even mentioned. This etiological anecdote is unconnected genealogically to Judah, although a town Jabez with Kenite/Judahite population is mentioned in 2:55*.28 The two clauses in this verse—“Jabez was honored more than his brothers”