Gershom

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Meaning: expulsion.

  1. The eldest son of Levi (1Chr 6:16ff; 1Chr 15:7) (also known as Gershon)
  2. The elder of the two sons of Moses born to him in Midian (Ex 2:22; Ex 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 (Ex 4:24ff), 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.
  3. A descendant of Phinehas who returned with Ezra from Babylon (Ez 8:2).
  4. The son of Manasseh (Jdg 18:30), in R.V. "of Moses."


This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.

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