Jabez

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 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"

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