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Gershom

Time-period: ❹ Mose-David (1400 – 1000 f.Kr.)
Age: -
Father: Moses
Mother: Zipporah
Siblings: Eliezer
children (1): Shebuel

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Gershom H1647
גֵּרְשֹׁם (Gershom)
13 times in OT
Total    13 times

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Exo 2:22
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She bore him a son, and he named him Gershom, "because I am a stranger in this land," he said.
[Moses had now become a citizen of the Midianites, far away from both the land of Egypt and his own people, the Israelites. In Hebrew, ger means stranger and shom means there, so together Gershom means "I was a stranger there" in the land where his son was born. According to Demetrius (a historian in Alexandria in 225 BC), the name Midian came from one of Abraham's sons. He also writes that Moses and Zipporah were both descended from Abraham. Moses in the seventh generation and Zipporah in the sixth.]
Exo 18:3
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with her two sons [Ex. 4:24–26]. One [the firstborn] was named Gershom [in Hebrew it sounds like "stranger there", see Ex. 4:22], because he said, "I am a stranger in a foreign land",
1 Ch 23:15
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The sons of Moses were:
Gershom and Eliezer.
1 Ch 23:16
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Gershom's son was: Shebuel, the chief.
1 Ch 26:24
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Shebuel, son of Gershom, son of Moses, was the chief overseer of the taxes.