Difference between revisions of "Galeed"

<p> <strong> [[Galeed]] </strong> (‘cairn of witness’). The name which, according to &nbsp; [[Genesis]] 31:47 , was given by Jacob to the cairn erected on the occasion of the compact between him and Laban. There is evidently a characteristic attempt also to account in this way for the name <em> [[Gilead]] </em> . The respective proceedings of Jacob and of [[Laban]] are uncertain, for the narrative is not only of composite origin, but has suffered through the introduction of glosses into the text. It is pretty certain that we should read ‘Laban’ instead of ‘Jacob’ in &nbsp; Genesis 31:45 . The [[Lxx]] [Note: Septuagint.] seeks unsuccessfully to reduce the narrative to order by means of transpositions. </p>

<p> ("a witness heap".) [[A]] [[Hebrew]] name given by Jacob to the heap which he and Laban reared on mount Gilead, a memorial of their brotherly covenant (&nbsp;Genesis 31:47-48). Laban called it in [[Aramaic]] (Chaldee or Syriac), Jegar-Sahadutha. (See [[Jegar-Sahadutha.)]] Apparently Nahor's family originally spoke Syriac, and [[Abraham]] and his family acquired Hebrew in Canaan, where the Hebrew was indigenous when he first settled there, the Hamitic [[Canaanites]] having learned it from an earlier Semitic race. The memorial heap marked the crisis in Jacob's life when he became severed from his [[Syrian]] kindred, and henceforth a sojourner in, and heir of, Canaan. </p>