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NASB					Gen 31:47 Now Laban^3837a ^Acalled⁷¹²¹ it ¹Jegar-sahadutha³⁰²⁶, but Jacob³²⁹⁰ called⁷¹²¹ it ²Galeed¹⁵⁶⁷.
AMPLIFIED 2015					Gen 31:47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha (stone monument of testimony in ¹Aramaic), but Jacob called it ²Galeed.

NASB Translator's Notes:
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I.e. the heap of witness, in Aram

I.e. the heap of witness, in Heb

Amplified 2015 Translator's Notes:
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The language of Laban, who was an Aramean (v 20). The two names chosen by Laban and Jacob were equivalent.

Heb heap of witness.

NASB Cross References:
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Josh 22:34 The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad called the altar Witness; "For," they said, "it is a witness between us that the LORD is God."

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Greek Heb.

1567

Galed (165a); from 1530 and 5707; "witness-pile," a memorial of stones E. of the Jordan River:--Galeed(2).

3026

Yegar Sahadutha (1094d, 1113c); (Ara.) from an unused word and one corr. to 7717; "heap (of stones) of the testimony, " a memorial of Jacob and Laban:--Jegar-sahadutha(1).

3290

Yaaqob (784d); from the same as 6119; a son of Isaac, also his desc.:--Jacob(331), Jacob's(18).

3837a

Laban (526c); from 3835a; father-in-law of Jacob:--Laban(50), Laban's(4).

7121

qara (894d); a prim. root; to call, proclaim, read:--become(1), become famous(1), call(121), called(301), calling(11), calls(17), cried(24), cries(1), cry(19), crying(2), dictated*(1), famous*(1), gave(4), given(1), gives(1), grasps(1), guests(4), invite(6), invited(14), live(1), made a proclamation(1), make a proclamation(1), men of renown(1), mentioned(3), name*(4), named(12), named*(62), offer it terms(1), proclaim(28), proclaimed(17), proclaiming(3), proclaims(2), read(35), reading(2), reads(1), screamed(2), screamed*(1), shouted(1), spoken(1), sues(1), summon(6), summoned(14), summoning(1), summons(2).

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