* Beriah.  that is, In evil.  because.
   Many similar instances of the naming of children from passing
   circumstances, occur throughout the sacred volume.  See those
   of a similar character with this verse:  Ge 35:18, where
   Rachel, while dying, names her new-born son Ben-oni, or, the
   son of my sorrow.  So in 1; SA 4:21, the wife of Phinehas, on
   being apprised of the death of Eli and her husband, and that
   the ark was taken by the Philistines, while in the pains of
   travail, and dying, named her son I-chabod, or, there is no
   glory.  So also in the 4th chapter of this book, ver. 9, we
   read that Jabez, or, sorrowful, had that name given to him,
   because his mother "bare him with sorrow."

  2Sa 23:5