Gershom

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Gershom
     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."
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Gershom, a stranger here