Chuàngshìjì 31:47

47 Lābān chēng nà shí duī wèi yī jiā ĕr sǎ hǎ dù tā , Yǎgè què chēng nà shí duī wèi Jiāléidé ( dōu shì yǐ shí duī wèi zhèng de yìsi ) .

Chuàngshìjì 31:47 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 31:47

And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha
Which in the Syriac and Chaldee languages signifies "an heap of witness"; it being, as after observed, a witness of the covenant between Laban and Jacob: but Jacob called it Galeed;
which in the Hebrew tongue signifies the same, "an heap of witness"; or "an heap, [the] witness", for the same reason. Laban was a Syrian, as he sometimes is called, ( Genesis 25:20 ) ( Genesis 31:20 Genesis 31:24 ) , wherefore he used the Syrian language; Jacob was a descendant of Abraham the Hebrew, and he used the Hebrew language; and both that their respective posterity might understand the meaning of the name; though these two are not so very different but Laban and Jacob could very well understand each other, as appears by their discourse together, these being but dialects of the same tongue.

Chuàngshìjì 31:47 In-Context

45 Yǎgè jiù ná yī kuaì shítou lì zuò zhùzi ,

46 Yòu duì zhòng dìxiōng shuō , nǐmen duī jù shítou . tāmen jiù ná shítou lái duī chéng yī duī , dàjiā biàn zaì pángbiān chī hē .

47 Lābān chēng nà shí duī wèi yī jiā ĕr sǎ hǎ dù tā , Yǎgè què chēng nà shí duī wèi Jiāléidé ( dōu shì yǐ shí duī wèi zhèng de yìsi ) .

48 Lābān shuō , jīnrì zhè shí duī zuò nǐ wǒ zhōngjiān de zhèngjù . yīncǐ zhè dìfang míng jiào Jiāléidé ,

49 Yòu jiào Mǐsībā , yìsi shuō , wǒmen bǐcǐ líbié yǐhòu , yuàn Yēhéhuá zaì nǐ wǒ zhōngjiān jiàn chá .