Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #1567 - גַּלְעֵד Galed ("witness-pile")

Original Word:	גַּלְעֵד
Transliteration:	Galed
Definition:	"witness-pile", a memorial of stones East of the Jordan River
Part of Speech:	Proper Name Location
Phonetic Spelling:	(gal-ade')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Galeed

From gal and ed; heap of testimony; Galed, a memorial cairn East of the Jordan -- Galeed.

see HEBREW gal

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Englishman's Concordance

Galeed=“witness heap”
1) the pile of stones heaped up between Jacob and Laban to certify their covenant; located on Mt Gilead
Part of Speech: noun proper locative
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: from H1530 and H5707

Brown-Driver-Briggs

גַּלְעֵדproper name, of a location (witness-pile) name of pile of stones erected by Jacob and his company (Kit^{Geschichte.129}; by Laban We Di) Genesis 31:47,48 (see גַּל1c) apparently intended to explain גִּלְעָד q. v.; Di conjecture also (as name of altar) Joshua 22:34 (compare ᵑ6).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 1567. גַּלְעֵד (Galed) — 2 Occurrences

Genesis 31:47
HEB:קָ֥רָא ל֖וֹ גַּלְעֵֽד׃
NAS: but Jacob called it Galeed.
KJV: but Jacob called it Galeed.
INT: Jacob called Galeed

Genesis 31:48
HEB:קָרָֽא־ שְׁמ֖וֹ גַּלְעֵֽד׃
NAS: Therefore it was named Galeed,
KJV: of it called Galeed;
INT: called was the name Galeed

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