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HEBREW / ARAMAIC · H3026
ye.gar — Jegar
Aramaic of ra.mot gi.l.ad (רָמֹת "Ramoth" H7433) § Jegar-sahadutha = "witness heap" the mound of stones raised as witness between Jacob and Laban, called by Jacob in Hebrew 'Galeed'
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →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.).
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
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