Study Dictionary
NAVE: Jegar-sahadutha
EBD: Jegar-sahadutha
Jegar
In Bible versions:
Jegar: NET NIVJegar-Sahaduthah: AVS TEV
Jegar-sahadutha: NRSV NASB
a monument of stones
heap of witness
heap of witness
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Jegar-sahadutha (32° 33´, 36° 0´)
Hebrew
Strongs #03026: atwdhs rgy Y@gar Sahaduwtha' (Aramaic)
Jegar-sahadutha = "witness heap"1) the mound of stones raised as witness between Jacob and Laban,
called by Jacob in Hebrew 'Galeed'
3026 Ygar Sahaduwtha' yegar' sah-had-oo-thaw'
(Aramaic) from a word derived from an unused root (meaning togather) and a derivation of a root corresponding to 7717; heap
of the testimony; Jegar-Sahadutha, a cairn East of the
Jordan:-Jegar-Sahadutha.
see HEBREW for 07717
Jegar-sahadutha [EBD]
pile of testimony, the Aramaic or Syriac name which Laban gave to the pile of stones erected as a memorial of the covenant between him and Jacob (Gen. 31:47), who, however, called it in Hebrew by an equivalent name, Galeed (q.v.).