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גֵּרְשׁוֹן

Gêrᵉshôwn · H1648 · Hebrew · proper noun · 14 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Gershom

    Man; son of Moses; tribe of Levi

    Examples

    Exodus 2:22 Then she gave birth to a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”

    Exodus 18:3 and her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for Moses said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”

    Judges 18:30 The sons of Dan set up for themselves the carved image; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of the Danites until the day of the captivity of the land.

  2. Gershom

    Man, also known as Gershon; son of Levi

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 6:16 The sons of Levi were Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

    1 Chronicles 6:17 These are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

    1 Chronicles 6:20 Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

  3. Gershom

    A descendant of Phinehas who returned with Ezra

    Examples

    Ezra 8:2 of the sons of Phinehas, Gershom; of the sons of Ithamar, Daniel; of the sons of David, Hattush;

How it’s used In 6 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 1 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

4 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

8 occurrences in 1 groups

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
Gershon names the eldest son of Levi, ancestor of the Gershonite clan assigned to the tabernacle's coverings and curtains.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1648. Gereshon or Gereshom גֵּרְשׁוֺן proper name, masculine son of Levi (= גרשׁם 1Ch…
H1648. Gereshon
or Gereshom גֵּרְשׁוֺן proper name, masculine son of Levi (= גרשׁם 1Ch 6:1; 1Ch 6:28; 1Ch 15:7 גרשׁום 1Ch 6:2; 1Ch 6:5; 1Ch 6:47; 1Ch 6:56) Gen 46:11; Exo 6:16-17, Num 3:17-18, Num 3:21, Num 3:25; Num 4:22, Num 4:38, Num 4:41; Num 7:7; Num 10:17; Num 26:57; Jos 21:6, Jos 21:27; 1 Chronicles 5:27; 1Ch 23:6 (particularly in expression sons of Gershon, i.e. family, descendants of Gershon Num 3:25; Num 4:22, Num 4:38, Num 4:41; Num 7:7; Num 10:17; Jos 21:6, Jos 21:27; compare sons of Gershom 1Ch 6:47; 1Ch 6:56; 1Ch 15:7).

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 People0 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

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