Honourably — For courage, and for fervent piety. She records this, that it might be a memorandum to herself, to be thankful to God as long as she lived, for bringing her through that sorrow: and a memorandum to him, that she bore him into a vale of tears, in which he might expect few days and full of trouble. And the sorrow in his name might serve to put a seriousness upon his spirit.
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1 Chronicles 4:9
9 And Jabezc was more honourable than his brethren: and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow.