Genesis 31:47

Jegar-sahadutha. Chaldaic. witness-heap.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it (k) Galeed. (k) The one named the place in the Syrian tongue, and the other in the Hebrew to...
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Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

47. And Laban called it. Each, in his own language, gives a name, of the same signification, to the heap. Whence it appears, that Laban used...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha - יגר שהדותא yegar sahadutha, the heap or round heap...
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And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha [yªgar] - a heap of stones х saahªduwtaa'...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Jegar-sahadutha. Galeed ] We have here the popular etymology of the name Gilead. Both words in the text mean 'heap of witness,' the former being Ara...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Jegar-sahadutha. — These are two Syriac words of the same meaning as Gal-’eed, Heap of Witness. A Syriac (or Aramaic) dialect was most probably t...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the midst of Jacob's success the second divine communication came to him, commanding him to return to the land of his fathers and giving him the p...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The heap of witness.
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha ,.... Which in the Syriac and Chaldee languages signifies "an heap of witness"; it being, as after observed, a wi...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. Ver. 47. See Trapp on " Gen 31:44 "
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

But Jacob called it Galeed The name Laban gave it signifies the heap of witness , in the Syrian tongue, which he used, and Galeed signifies the...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Both names signify the same thing, a heap of witness; only Laban gives the name in the Syrian language; but Jacob, though he had been long convers...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha (‘heap of witness' in Aramaic), but Jacob called it Galeed (‘heap of witness' in Hebrew).' This is interesting...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 31:47 . And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galeed.] “It is remarkable that in giving these names L...
Scofield Reference Notes

Jegarsahadutha Chaldean, the heap of witness.
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 31:1 . He heard the words of Laban's sons. Three causes are assigned for Jacob's abrupt removal: first, the bitter reproaches of Laban's s...
The Biblical Illustrator

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jegar-sahadutha. i.e., the heap of witness. Chald. Galeed. Hebrews 12:1

⁴⁷ And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha:g but Jacob called it Galeed.

Related Commentaries of Genesis 31:47

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 31:47