Bible Names

Gershon: meaning of the name

Gershon means “his banishment; the change of pilgrimage.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Gershon in Hebrew and Greek

גֵּרְשׁוֹן H1648

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

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

Who named Gershon in the Bible

Gershon in Scripture

“Gershon” appears in 18 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Genesis 46:11

    And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

  • Exodus 6:16

    And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.

  • Exodus 6:17

    The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

  • Numbers 3:17

    And these were the sons of Levi by their names; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari.

  • Numbers 3:18

    And these are the names of the sons of Gershon by their families; Libni, and Shimei.

  • Numbers 3:21

    Of Gershon was the family of the Libnites, and the family of the Shimites: these are the families of the Gershonites.

  • Numbers 3:25

    And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,

  • Numbers 4:22

    Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;