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GERSHOM

(Heb. gēršōm) (also GERSHON)

1. The son of Moses and Zipporah, born in Midian (Exod. 2:22; 18:3). Gershom was the father of Jonathan, who served as priest to the Danites and whose sons maintained that position until the captivity (Judg. 18:30; MT “son of Manasseh,” likely a scribal error for “Moses”). Gershom and his son Shebuel were later projected to David’s time and incorporated into the levitical genealogy, with Shebuel serving as a Levite in the house of the Lord (1 Chr. 23:15-16).

2. A son of Levi, whose descendants were called Gershomites or “sons of Gershom” (1 Chr. 6:16, 62, 71[MT 1, 47. 56]; 15:7). Elsewhere the name is read “Gershon.”

3. A descendant of Phinehas, who returned from Babylon with Ezra (Ezra 8:2; 1 Esdr. 8:29).

Kenneth Atkinson






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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