מַצֵּבָה

matstsebah

mats-tse-VAH

pillar, standing stone

Where it comes from

He uses the stone he slept on. The pillow becomes the monument — the hard thing under his head on the worst night of his life is what he stands up and pours oil over.

Genesis 28:18

And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

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