This Aramaic word appears in the famous boundary-setting scene between Jacob and Laban in Genesis 31:47. Laban speaks Aramaic, calling the witness-heap 'Yegar-Sahadutha,' while Jacob uses the Hebrew equivalent 'Galeed.' Both terms mean 'heap of witness,' marking a covenant boundary. The bilingual wordplay in this passage reflects the linguistic and ethnic divide between the Aramaic-speaking peoples of Mesopotamia and the Hebrew-speaking descendants of Abraham, even as they make peace through shared covenant practices.