Bible Location
Meaning: heap of witness · 1 cross reference · Modern-day map available
Jegar-sahadutha was Laban's Aramaic name for the covenant-heap he and Jacob raised. It is important because it preserves the bilingual memory of the same witness-place also called Galeed. First appears in Gen 31:47.1
Place meaning
heap of witness
Coordinates
32.57, 36.01
First appears
Gen 31:47
AI summary: Jegar-sahadutha matters because the covenant between Jacob and Laban is remembered through both Hebrew and Aramaic naming. The place belongs to a border scene of witness, separation, and uneasy peace.1
Place meaning
heap of witness
Latitude
32.57
Longitude
36.01
Bible references
1
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.). 3
Source note: this 1893 dictionary language reflects its period and may be culturally insensitive or outdated. It is presented as historical source material, not as ai-BIBLE’s language, interpretation, or endorsement.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.