Gergesenes: meaning of the name
Gergesenes means “those who come from pilgrimage or fight.”
Gergesenes in Scripture
“Gergesenes” appears in 1 verse of the King James Version.
- Matthew 8:28
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.