What does the name Gil'ad mean?
liorah | Homepage | 07.19.06 - 1:37 am | #

And it's actually Gil'adah ... what happened to the feminine ending in the translation?
liorah | Homepage | 07.19.06 - 1:40 am | #

gil‘ada = legil‘ad = "to Gil‘ad"
Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) | Homepage | 07.19.06 - 4:18 am | #

Interesting.

>What does the name Gil'ad mean?

The folk etymology in the Torah is "gal 'ed," or "mound of stones." See Gen. 31:44-48.
S. | Homepage | 07.19.06 - 11:36 am | #

S:

hmm. when i was learning that narrative with my class, it seemed more like Ya‘aqov was making a play-on-words, as if the place had already been called Gil‘ad, and so therefore he named the symbolic object Gal-‘Eid. Sort of like mafiosos going to dispose of a guy named Arthur in the Arthur Kill. Poetic justice and all that. Especially since i don't see the text saying "and that's why it's called Gil‘ad", like it does with Beit-Eil, Sukkot, Mahhanayim...
Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) | Homepage | 07.19.06 - 2:30 pm | #

I found the name translated as "a mound of testimony".
liorah | Homepage | 07.20.06 - 1:17 am | #

gal = mound, pile, cairn
Steg (dos iz nit der šteg) | Homepage | 07.20.06 - 7:19 am | #

>hmm. when i was learning that narrative with my class, it seemed more like Ya‘aqov was making a play-on-words, as if the place had already been called Gil‘ad, and so therefore he named the symbolic object Gal-‘Eid.

And Lavan?
S. | Homepage | 07.20.06 - 12:47 pm | #

Not that I am saying your interpretation is wrong.
S. | Homepage | 07.20.06 - 12:47 pm | #

which wife of Chetzron's was mahir's daughter?
Ben Bayit | Homepage | 07.21.06 - 9:57 am | #

Vayoresh does not mean "and he inherited", it means "and he drove out". Vayiyrash would mean "inherited".
Milhouse | Homepage | 07.24.06 - 8:29 am | #

thanks, millhouse.
will update.
adderabbi | 07.24.06 - 10:15 am | #

millhouse - it seems that it's one of those roots that can have opposing meanings.
adderabbi | Homepage | 07.24.06 - 12:02 pm | #