Word

גֵּרָא

Gêrâʼ · H1617 · Hebrew · proper noun · 9 occurrences

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This name belongs to 4 people

Meanings

Gera

Man; son of Bela, son of Benjamin

Examples
Genesis 46:21 And the sons of Benjamin: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.
1 Chronicles 8:3 Bela had sons: Addar, Gera, Abihud,
1 Chronicles 8:5 Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram.
Gera

Man; father of Ehud, tribe of Benjamin, judge of Israel

Examples
Judges 3:15 But when the sons of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
Gera

Man; father of Shimei, tribe of Benjamin

Examples
2 Samuel 16:5 When King David came to Bahurim, behold, a man was coming out from there from the family of the house of Saul, and his name was Shimei, the son of Gera; he was coming out, cursing as he came.
2 Samuel 19:16 Then Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjaminite who was from Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet King David.
2 Samuel 19:18 Then they crossed the shallow places repeatedly to bring over the king’s household, and to do what was good in his sight. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king as he was about to cross the Jordan.
Gera

Man; son of Ehud; tribe of Benjamin

Examples
1 Chronicles 8:7 namely, Naaman, Ahijah, and Gera—he exiled them; and he fathered Uzza and Ahihud.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 5

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Names of People003001007: Gera names a son of Benjamin, and the family name of both the judge Ehud and Shimei, who cursed David during Absalom's revolt.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1617. Gera גֵּרָא proper name, masculine (Phoenician גרא) son of Benjamin Gen 46:21…

H1617. Gera
גֵּרָא proper name, masculine (Phoenician גרא) son of Benjamin Gen 46:21 (lacking Num 26:38-40); son of Bela`, & grandson of Benjamin, according to 1Ch 8:3, 1Ch 8:5 compare 1Ch 8:7; designation of a Benjamite family or clan; hence Ehud called בֶּןגֵּֿרָא Jdg 3:15, & so Shimei, 2Sa 16:5; 2Sa 19:17; 2Sa 19:19; 1Ki 2:8.
גרב (√ of following; Arabic , Aramaic (have the scab etc.), are apparently denominative)

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Names of People9 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0