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# גַּלְעֵד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1567

**Galeed** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Galeed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1567/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גַּלְעֵד: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1567/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. (witness-pile) name of pile of stones erected by Jacob and his company (KitGesch. 129; by Laban We Di) Gn 31:47, 48 (v. גַּל 1 c) appar. intended to explain גִּלְעָד q.v.; Di conj. also (as name of altar) Jos 22:34 (cf. 𝔖).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Galeed (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 31:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.47/#tree)

וַיִּקְרָא־ל֣וֹ לָבָ֔ן יְגַ֖ר שָׂהֲדוּתָ֑א יְגַ֖ר שָׂהֲדוּתָ֑א וְיַֽעֲקֹ֔ב קָ֥רָא ל֖וֹ גַּלְעֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.called (to) it Laban Jegar Sahadutha and Jacob he.called (to) it Galeed

*JPS 1917:* And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha; but Jacob called it Galeed.

[Genesis 31:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.31.48/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָבָ֔ן הַגַּ֨ל הַזֶּ֥ה עֵ֛ד בֵּינִ֥י וּבֵינְךָ֖ הַיּ֑וֹם עַל־כֵּ֥ן קָרָֽא־שְׁמ֖וֹגַּלְעֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Laban the heap (the) this \[is\].a.witness between me and between you this day therefore he.called name its Galeed

*JPS 1917:* And Laban said: 'This heap is witness between me and thee this day.' Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1567.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1567/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).