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According to the Bible, Gershom (גֵּרְשֹׁם Gēršōm, "a sojourner there"; Latin: Gersam) was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. The name means "a stranger there" in Hebrew, (גר שם ger sham), which the text argues was a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt.
After our people left Egypt, Moses’ sons (Gershom and Eliezer), along with their mother and grandfather (Jethro), rejoined their father in the desert. This is the last overt mention of Moses’ sons in the Torah.1
Moses’ oldest son and a clan name for some of Moses’ descendants. Of Moses’ son the Bible offers only genealogical data and, prob., the account of his circumcision ( Exod 4:24-26 ).
Oct 4, 2018 · Gershom was the eldest of the sons of Moses born in Midian. Gershom means “a stranger there” in Hebrew, referring to Moses being a stranger in Median (Exodus 2:22). According to 1 Chronicles 6:16, the eldest son of Levi is sometimes identified as Gershom.
Discover the meaning of Gershom in the Bible. Study the definition of Gershom with multiple Bible Dictionaries and Encyclopedias and find scripture references in the Old and New Testaments.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. GERSHOM. gur'-shom (gereshom, from garash, "to cast out"; explained, however, in Exodus 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.
GERSHOM (Heb. גֵּרְשׁוֹם, גֵּרְשֹׁם), elder son of Moses and Zipporah (Ex. 2:22; 18:3). Gershom was born in Midian. The meaning of the name is unknown, but is explained as "a stranger there," symbolizing Moses' flight from Egypt. According to i Chronicles 23:16 and 26:24, Gershom's son was Shebuel.
Gershom Scholem ( Hebrew: גֵרְשׁׂם שָׁלוֹם) (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. [1]
'The name of the one [of Moses' sons] was Gershom ... and the name of the other was Eliezer....' -- EXODUS xviii.3, 4. In old times parents often used to give expression to their hopes or their emotions in the names of their children.
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. See 'Gershom' instances in the King James Version (KJV).
