Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; It is stained with blood.
It has also the signification of the heel of a man's foot, and is by some rendered, "trodden by blood" c; that is, by bloody men: or "footed" or "heeled by blood" d; that is, such an abundance of it was shed, that a man could not set his foot or his heel any where but in blood.