Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha - yegar sahadutha , the heap or round heap of witness; but Jacob called it galed , which signifies the same thing. The first is pure Chaldee, the second pure Hebrew. agar signifies to collect, hence yegar and ogar , a collection or heap made up of gathered stones; and hence also egora , an altar, used frequently by the Chaldee paraphrast . See I Kings 12:33; Judges 6:31; II Kings 21:3; Jeremiah 17:1. See Castel' s Lexicon. From this example we may infer that the Chaldee language was nearly coequal with the Hebrew. A gloss made by St. Jerome, and which was probably only entered by him in his margin as a note, has crept into the text of the Vulgate. It is found in every copy of this version, and is as follows: Uterque juxta proprietatem linguae suae , Each according to the idiom of his own tongue.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Genesis 29:4
Genesis 31:21
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