GENESIS 31:45

KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)

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“And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.”

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Genesis 31:45 Translation & Meaning

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And Jacob יַֽעֲקֹ֖ב Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch Jacob
took וַיִּקַּ֥ח To take (in the widest variety of applications) took
a stone, אָ֑בֶן A stone stone
and set it up וַיְרִימֶ֖הָ To be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively) set up
for (No Hebrew definition. English implied.)
a pillar. מַצֵּבָֽה׃ Something stationed, i.e., a column or (memorial stone); by analogy, an idol pillar

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  • 43  And Laban answered and said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou seest is mine: and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or unto their children which they have born?

  • 44  Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

  • 45  And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

  • 46  And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap.

  • 47  And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.




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