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Meaning: the heap of witness · 2 cross references · Modern-day map available
Galeed was the heap of stones erected by Jacob and Laban as a witness to their covenant. It is important because it turns a border tension into a named memorial of mutual restraint. First appears in Gen 31:47.1
AI summary: Galeed matters because it is a place literally created by covenant-making. The heap embodies witness, separation, and agreed peace between Jacob and Laban, and the two-language naming deepens the sense of shared yet divided worlds. The cross references present Galeed as a man-made landmark of witness and boundary.1
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. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.