Affiction. (1.) A descendant of Judah, of whom it is recorded that "God granted him that which he requested" (1 Chr. 4:9, 10). (2.) A place inhabited by several families of the scribes (1 Chr. 2:55). sorrow; trouble (sorrow). + Apparently a place at which the families of the scribes resided who belonged to the families of the Kenites. (1 Chronicles 2:55) + The name occurs again in the genealogies of Judah, (1 Chronicles 4:9,10) in a passage of remarkable detail inserted in a genealogy again connected with Bethlehem. ver. 4.
Jabez