Gen 31:47 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 47. 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 ; ; ; . 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.

‏ Genesis 31:47

Verse 47. 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 1Ki 12:33; Jud 6:31; 2Ki 21:3; Jer 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.