גֵּרְשֹׁם
Gershom
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H1647 appears in the Book of Ezra — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
גרשם — transliterated Gêrᵉshôm — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Gershom.” More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in 1 Chronicles. It appears 14 verses across 4 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. Its earliest occurrence is Exodus 2:22. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1647 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,910
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,910 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 10 verses 71%
- Exodus 2 verses 14%
- Judges 1 verse 7%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 14 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 11 verses · 79%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 2 verses · 14%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Gershom 12×
- American Standard Version: Gershom 13×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gershom 11×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Gershom 8×, Gershon 5×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1647 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1647 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1647 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1647 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. son of Moses & Ṣipporah Ex 2:22 (expl. as if from גור) = 18:3; גֵּרְשׁוֹם 1 Ch 23:15, 16; 26:24; so also גֵּרְשֹׁם Ju 18:30 MT בֶּן־מְנַשֶּׁה cf. VB e.g. Exodus 2:22
- 2. a son of Levi גֵּרְשֹׁם 1 Ch 6:1, 28; 15:7 (cf. גֵּרְשׁוֹן); גֵּרְשׁוֹם 1 Ch 6:2, 5, 47, 56. e.g. 1 Chronicles 6:1
- 3. a son of Phinehas Ezr 8:2. e.g. Ezra 8:2
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
Derived from גרשון (Gêrᵉshôwn) (H1648) — Gershon.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H1647 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גֵרְשׁ֖וֹם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:17 | 2 |
| גֵּֽרְשֹׁ֔ם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 18:3 | 2 |
| גֵּרְשֹׁ֖ם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:43 | 2 |
| גֵרְשׁ֜וֹם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:62 | 1 |
| גֵּרְשׁ֣וֹם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:24 | 1 |
| גֵּרְשֹׁ֑ם | Noun, Proper | Exodus 2:22 | 1 |
| גֵּרְשֹׁ֕ם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:16 | 1 |
| גֵּרְשֹׁ֨ם | Noun, Proper | Judges 18:30 | 1 |
| גֵּרְשׁוֹם֒ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:71 | 1 |
| לְ/גֵרְשׁ֖וֹן | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 23:6 | 1 |
| לְֽ/גֵרְשׁ֑וֹם | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1647, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Gershom). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
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 · William Smith, 1863
(a stranger or exile).
+ 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.)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
a stranger here
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
