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Gershom
also known as: Gershon
Meaning: expulsion [other authors include these meanings: “exile,” “an alien there”, “a stranger there,” “a sojourner there”]
This is the name of 4 Biblical men.
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Gershom, the eldest son of Levi (1 Chronicles 6:16,17, 20, 43, 62, 71; 15:7) . [He is also called “Gershon.” His descendants were called Gershonites (Numbers 26:57).
His brothers were Kohath and Merari (Genesis 46:11; Numbers 3:17).]
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Gershom, the elder of the 2 sons of Moses born to him in Midian (Exodus 2:22; 18:3).
On his way to Egypt with his family, in obedience to the command of the Lord, Moses was attacked by a sudden and dangerous illness (4:24-26), which Zipporah his wife believed to have been sent because he had neglected to circumcise his son.
She accordingly took a “sharp stone” and circumcised her son Gershom, saying, “Surely a bloody husband art thou to me”, i.e., by the blood of her child she had, as it were, purchased her husband, had won him back again.
Gershom had a son named Jonathan who served with his sons as priests to the Tribe of Dan.
Then the sons of Dan set up for themselves the graven image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the exile of the land. —Judges 18:30 NASB
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Gershom, a descendant of Phinehas who returned with Ezra from Babylon (Ezra 8:2).
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Gershom, the son of Manasseh (Judges 18:30), in Revised King James Version “of Moses.”
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