Topic
Galeed
5 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
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- Genesis 31:47Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave The memorial of Jacob's and Laban's covenant
And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
- Genesis 31:48Easton · Smith · Nave The memorial of Jacob's and Laban's covenant
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
- Genesis 31:23Smith
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
- Genesis 31:25Smith
¶ Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.
- Joshua 4:4ISBE
Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 2 references
Heap of witness, the name of the pile of stones erected by Jacob and Laban to mark the league of friendship into which they entered with each other (Gen. 31:47, 48). This was the name given to the “heap” by Jacob. It is Hebrew, while the name Jegar-sahadutha, given to it by Laban, is Aramaic (Chaldee or Syriac). Probably Nahor’s family originally spoke Aramaic, and Abraham and his descendants learned Hebrew, a kindred dialect, in the land of Canaan.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 4 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 2 references
gal'-e-ed (gal`edh): Derived from the Hebrew gal, "a heap of stones," and `edh, "witness." The meaning therefore is "cairn" or "heap of witness," corresponding to yeghar-sahddhutha' in Aramaic (Ge 31:47). It is applied to the cairn raised by Jacob and Laban, beside which they sealed their covenant in a common meal, the memory of which they appealed to the silent cairn to preserve. The ancient custom of associating events with inanimate objects as witnesses is often illustrated in Hebrew history (Jos 4:4 ff, etc.). There may be in this narrative a suggestion of how the name "Gilead" came to be applied to that country.
W. Ewing
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.