Jegar-sahadutha (Ramoth-gilead)
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Jegar-sahadutha (Ramoth-gilead) and surrounding region

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Occurrences
Genesis 31:47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
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JEGAR-SAHA-DUTHA

je-gar-sa-ha-du'-tha (yeghar sahadhutha'; Septuagint Bounos marturei, "(the) mound witnesses"): The name given by the Aramean, Laban, to the "cairn of witness," called by Jacob GALEED (which see) (Genesis 31:47). The rest of the second part of this name appears again in Job 16:19, where sahadhi, should be rendered with the Revised Version (British and American), "he that voucheth for me," i.e. "my witness."


JE'GAR-SAHADU'THA, means "the heap," or pile of "testimony," see Gen. 31:47.
Strong's Hebrew
H3026: Yegar Sahadutha

"heap (of stones) of the testimony, " a memorial of Jacob and Laban

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