1 Chronicles 4:9

And his mother.. sorrow] better,' though his mother called his name Jabez, saying, Because I bare him with sorrow' (Heb. ozeb). The sorrow implied by his ominous name was averted by his prayer.

17, 18. And she bare] It has been conjectured that the last clause of 1 Chronicles 4:18 (And these are .. Mered took) should be inserted before these words, Bithiah and Jehudijah (or 'the Jewess') being the two wives of Mered. The daughter of Pharaoh] If Pharaoh here means the king of Egypt, Mered must have been a person of distinction. The name Bithiah (lit. 'daughter of Jehovah') suggests that his Egyptian wife at her marriage adopted the religion of her husband.