Jegar-Sahadutha

The heap of witness; so rendered in the margins of our Bibles. (See Gen. xxxi. 47. to the end.) Jacob called it Galeed and Mizpah; as if he had said, let the Galeed be witness, and this Mizpah be witness, There is something very tender and interesting in this parting of natural ties never to meet again. Such will be the everlasting separation in every instance of nature, where our affinities are not new - formed in grace.

Heap of witness, a Chaldee name, equivalent to Galeed in Hebrew, both marking the scene of the covenant between Jacob and Laban, Gen 31:47 .\par

("heap of witness".) The Aramaic or Chaldee name given by the Syrian Laban to the stone heap commemorating his compact with Jacob, whereon they ate together. Galeed, "a witness heap," the Hebrew name given by Jacob.(See GALEED.) The whole region was already "Gilead," i.e. hard rocky region, and Jacob made the word by a slight change to mark a crisis in his history (Gen 31:44-55).

JEGAR-SAHADUTHA (‘cairn of witness’).—The name said to have been given by Laban to the cairn erected on the occasion of the compact between him and Jacob (Gen 31:47).