Bible Names

Galeed: meaning of the name

Galeed means “the heap of witness.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Galeed in Hebrew and Greek

גַּלְעֵד H1567

Galʻêd (gal-ade') — Galed, a memorial cairn East of the Jordan

from H1530 (גַּל) and H5707 (עֵד); heap of testimony;

Galeed in Scripture

“Galeed” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 31:47

    And Laban called it Jegar–sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

  • Genesis 31:48

    And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;