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

Surname

References

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