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Strong's #1647 - גֵּרְשֹׁם
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Gershom = “foreigner”
1) firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah
2) firstborn son of Levi
3) a son of the priestly family of Phinehas who returned from exile with Ezra
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1 son of Moses & Sipporah Exodus 2:22 (explanation as if from גור) = Exodus 18:3; גֵּרְשׁוֺם 1 Chronicles 23:15,16; 1 Chronicles 26:24; so also גֵּרְשֹׁם Judges 18:30 ᵑ0בֶּןֿ מְנַשֶּׁה compare VB.
2 a son of Leviגֵּרְשֹׁם 1 Chronicles 6:1; 1 Chronicles 6:28; 1 Chronicles 15:7 (compare גֵּרְשׁוֺן); גֵּרְשׁוֺם 1 Chronicles 6:2; 1 Chronicles 6:5; 1 Chronicles 6:47; 1 Chronicles 6:56.
3 a son of Phinehas Ezra 8:2.
גֵּרְשֹׁם (“expulsion,” i.q. גֵּרְשׁוֹן), pr.n.
(1) of a son of Moses and Zipporah, Exodus 2:22, 18:3. In the former place the etymology of this name is alluded to in such a manner that it appears that the writer took it for גֵּר שֹׁם i.q. גֵּר שָׁם a stranger there [this is of course the true etymology; Moses wrote by inspiration, and he knew very well why he gave this name to his own son] (compare ثُمَّ i.q. שָׁם); hence the LXX., that they might express this etymology more distinctly, have put Γηρσάμ.
(2) of a son of Levi, who is elsewhere called גֵּרְשׁוֹן which see.
(3) Judges 18:30.
(4) Ezra 8:2.
