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Jabez or Jabes is a character in the biblical Books of Chronicles. Jabez may also refer to:

Mononym

* Eric Nicol (1919–2011), Canadian author, wrote under the pen-name "Jabez"

Given name

People

* Jabez Balfour (1843–1916), British businessman, Liberal Party politician and fraudster
* Jabez A. Bostwick (1830–1892), American businessman who was a founding partner of Standard Oil
*Jabez Bowen, Jr. (1739–1815), a deputy governor of Rhode Island, militia colonel during the American Revolutionary War and Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
* Jabez Bryce (1935–2010), Anglican Archbishop of Polynesia and the first Pacific Islander to become an Anglican bishop
*Jabez Bunting (1779–1858), English Methodist
*Jabez Burns (1805–1876), English nonconformist divine and Christian philosophical writer
* Jabez Coon (1869–1935), member of the Australian House of Representatives
*Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825–1903), lawyer, soldier, U.S. Congressman, college professor and administrator, diplomat, and Confederate officer
* Jabez Darnell (1884–1950), English footballer
* Jabez Hamlin (1709–1791), Connecticut politician and judge
*Jabez Delano Hammond (1778–1855), American physician, lawyer, author and politician
*Jabez Carter Hornblower (1744–1814), English pioneer of steam power
* Jabez Huntington (1719-1786), Major General in the Connecticut state forces, Connecticut Council of Safety member, merchant from Norwich, Connecticut
*Jabez W. Huntington (1788–1847), U.S. Representative and Senator from Connecticut
*Jabez Young Jackson (1790–1839), U.S. Representative from Georgia
*Jabez Leftwich (1765–1855), Representative from Virginia
*Jabez Bunting Snowball (1837–1907), Canadian politician and businessman, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
* J. Curry Street (1906–1989), American physicist, co-discover of muons
* Jabez G. Sutherland (1825–1902), Representative from Michigan and judge
*Jabez Upham (1764–1811), Representative from Massachusetts
* Jabez Vodrey (1795–1861), first English potter west of the Appalachian Mountains of North America
* Jabez Waterhouse (1821–1891), English-born Australian Methodist minister
*Jabez H. Wells (1853-1930), American politician and curler
*Jabez Wong Yau Long (1985-2017), Chinese filmographer and author, famous for adapting the three little pigs

Fictional characters

*Jabez Clegg, the eponymous character in Isabella Banks' 1876 novel '' The Manchester Man'' and its 1920 film adaptation
*Jabez Dexter, the villain of the 1949 Wonder Woman comic ''Sensation Comics #87''.
*Jabez North, the villain of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel ''The Trail of the Serpent''
*Jabez Potter, in Alice B. Emerson's ''Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill'' (1913), the first of a 30-book series
*Jabez Stone, the protagonist of the short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and its film adaptations.
*Jabez Stump, a secondary character in the 1989 ''Redwall'' series novel ''Mattimeo'' and the second season of the ''Redwall'' animated television show, which is also called ''Mattimeo''.
*Jabez Wilson, a main character in the Sherlock Holmes short story "The Red-Headed League"
*Jabez, a boat rental operator on the Thames in Connie Willis's ''To Say Nothing of the Dog''

Surname

* Barzillai ben Baruch Jabez, Turkish Talmudist of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
*Joseph ben Hayyim Jabez (15th century-16th century), Spanish-Jewish theologian

References

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Hebrew Bible people

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