Topic
Gershom
17 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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- Exodus 2:22Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave 1. Son of Moses
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
- Ezra 8:2Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave 3. A descendant of Phinehas
Of the sons of Phinehas; Gershom: of the sons of Ithamar; Daniel: of the sons of David; Hattush.
- Exodus 18:3Easton · Smith · Nave 1. Son of Moses
And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
- 1 Chronicles 6:16Easton · Smith · ISBE
¶ The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- 1 Chronicles 6:17Easton · Smith · ISBE
And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.
- 1 Chronicles 6:20Easton · Smith · ISBE
Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
- 1 Chronicles 6:43Easton · Smith · ISBE
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
- 1 Chronicles 6:71Easton · Smith · ISBE
Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:
- Judges 18:30Easton · Nave 4. A Levite
¶ And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.
- 1 Chronicles 6:62Easton · Smith
And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
- 1 Chronicles 15:7Easton · Smith
Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:
- Exodus 4:25ISBE
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
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- 1 Chronicles 6:12 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 23:14 ISBE
- 1 Chronicles 23:15 Nave 1. Son of Moses
- 1 Chronicles 23:16 Nave 1. Son of Moses
- 1 Chronicles 26:24 Nave 1. Son of Moses
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 12 references
Expulsion. (1.) The eldest son of Levi (1 Chr. 6:16, 17, 20, 43, 62, 71; 15:7)=GERSHON (q.v.).
(2.) The elder of the two sons of Moses born to him in Midian (Ex. 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.
(3.) A descendant of Phinehas who returned with Ezra from Babylon (Ezra 8:2).
(4.) The son of Manasseh (Judg. 18:30), in R.V. “of Moses.”
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 10 references
- The first-born son of Moses and Zipporah. (Exodus 2:22; 18:3) (B.C. 1530.)
- The form under which the name GERSHON--the eldest son of Levi--is given in several passages of Chronicles, viz., (1 Chronicles 6:16,17,20,43,62,71; 15:7)
- The representative of the priestly family of Phinehas, among those who accompanied Ezra from Babylon. (Ezra 8:2) (B.C. 536.)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 12 references
gur'-shom (gereshom, from garash, "to cast out"; explained, however, in Ex 2:22 and 18:3 as from gur, "For he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land"):
(1) Firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. The only details of his life contained in the Pentateuch are the account of his circumcision (Ex 4:25), and his remaining under the care of Jethro, while Moses was in Egypt leading the Exodus. His descendants were numbered among the tribes of Levi (1Ch 23:14). One of them apparently was the Jonathan who officiated as priest of the idolatrous sanctuary at Dan, and whose descendants held the office until the captivity. The Massoretic Text inserts a suspended nun, "n," in the name of Moses (mosheh), causing it to be lead Manasseh, for the purpose, according to tradition, of disguising the name out of respect for the revered Lawgiver. Another descendant described as a "son" was Shebuel, a ruler over the treasuries of David.
(2) A son of Levi, so called in 1Ch 6:16,17,20,43,12,71 (Hebrew 1,2,5,28,47,56); 15:7; elsewhere GERSHON (which see).
(3) A descendant of Phinehas, the head of a father's house, who journeyed with Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem in the reign of Artaxerxes (Ezr 8:2).
Ella Davis Isaacs
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Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.