Gênesis 31:47

47 Labão o chamou Jegar-Saaduta, e Jacó o chamou Galeede.^[a]

Gênesis 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.

Gênesis 31:47 In-Context

45 Então Jacó tomou uma pedra e a colocou em pé como coluna.

46 E disse aos seus parentes: “Juntem algumas pedras”. Eles apanharam pedras e as amontoaram. Depois comeram ali, ao lado do monte de pedras.

47 Labão o chamou Jegar-Saaduta, e Jacó o chamou Galeede.

48 Labão disse: “Este monte de pedras é uma testemunha entre mim e você, no dia de hoje”. Por isso foi chamado Galeede.

49 Foi também chamado Mispá, porque ele declarou: “Que o SENHOR nos vigie, a mim e a você, quando estivermos separados um do outro.

Footnotes

• [a]. Tanto "Jegar-Saaduta " (aramaico) como "Galeede " (hebraico) significam monte de pedras do testemunho.