Bible Names

Gershom: meaning of the name

Gershom means “a stranger here.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Gershom in Hebrew and Greek

גֵּרְשֹׁם H1647

Gêrᵉshôm (gay-resh-ome') — Gereshom, the name of four Israelites

for H1648 (גֵּרְשׁוֹן);

גֵּרְשׁוֹן H1648

Gêrᵉshôwn (gay-resh-one') — Gereshon or Gereshom, an Israelite

or גֵּרְשׁוֹם; from H1644 (גָּרַשׁ); a refugee;

People named Gershom in the Bible

Gershom in Scripture

“Gershom” appears in 14 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Exodus 2:22

    And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

  • Exodus 18:3

    And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

  • Judges 18:30

    And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:16

    The sons of Levi; Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:17

    And these be the names of the sons of Gershom; Libni, and Shimei.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:20

    Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

  • 1 Chronicles 6:43

    The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.

  • 1 Chronicles 6:62

    And to the sons of Gershom throughout their families out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.