Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Another interesting point in relation to my previous posting on 
Mizpeh/Mizpah and Gilead: Compare Genesis 31:47-49 which suggests a 
specific Mizpeh/Mizpah in the Gilead region (31:25) which was also 
called Galeed, same consonants as Gilead. Compare also Joshua 22:34. 
Perhaps Gilead/Galeed was originally another name for the specific 
location which became widened to the region. BDB identifies also with 
Ramath Mizpah Jos. 13:26. I found a reference to an identification 
with Ramoth-Gilead, but it seems that is now taken as much further 
north, at Tell er Ramith.

There is apparently a Khirbet Jel`ad on the modern Jebel Jel`ad in the 
correct location. Elsewhere I read of a site called Jal`ud - the same 
place or another? Has there been any excavation here?

Peter Kirk