Gadarenes: meaning of the name
Gadarenes means “men of Gadara, i.e., a place surrounded or walled.”
Gadarenes in Scripture
“Gadarenes” appears in 3 verses of the King James Version.
- Mark 5:1
And they came over unto the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gadarenes.
- Luke 8:26
And they arrived at the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
- Luke 8:37
Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.