Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H1648
גֵּרְשׁוֹן
Gereshongay-resh-one'
Gershon
18 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Gêrᵉshôwn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1648is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1648
Gereshon or Gereshom, an Israelite
The King James renders it: Gershon, Gershom.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Gereshon is rendered "Gershon". It stands 18 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Ten of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 46:11The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
Genesis 46:11גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Ten of the word's eighteen uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Gershon14
- to Gershon2
- Gershom1
- of Gershon1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| גֵּר | ger | sojourner | Uses92 |
| גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי | Gereshunni | Gershonite | Uses13 |
| גֵּרָה | gerah | cud | Uses11 |
| גֵּרָה | gerah | gerah | Uses5 |
The words it stands beside
All 18, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן4
- גֵרְשׁ֖וֹן2
- גֵרְשׁוֹן֙2
- גֵרְשׁ֑וֹן2
- גֵּרְשׁ֑וֹם1
- גֵרְשׁ֛וֹן1
- גֵרְשׁ֔וֹן1
- גֵרְשׁ֗וֹן1
- גֵרְשׁוֹן֮1
- לְגֵ֣רְשׁ֔וֹן1
- לְגֵרְשׁ֗וֹן1
- לְגֵרְשׁ֖וֹן1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)15HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npm
Genesis
one use
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
Exodus
two uses
These were the names of the sons of Levi according to their records: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.
- גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, by their clans.
- גֵרְשׁ֛וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
Numbers
ten uses
These were the sons of Levi by name: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
These were the names of the sons of Gershon by their clans: Libni and Shimei.
- גֵרְשׁ֖וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.
- לְגֵ֣רְשׁ֔וֹןlegereshonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Gershon
The duties of the Gershonites at the Tent of Meeting were the tabernacle and tent, its covering, the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,
- גֵרְשׁוֹן֙gereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
“Take a census of the Gershonites as well, by their families and clans,
- גֵרְשׁ֖וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
Then the Gershonites were numbered by their clans and families,
- גֵרְשׁ֑וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
These were counted from the Gershonite clans who served at the Tent of Meeting, whom Moses and Aaron counted at the LORD’s command.
- גֵרְשׁ֔וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
He gave the Gershonites two carts and four oxen, as their service required,
- גֵרְשׁ֑וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
Then the tabernacle was taken down, and the Gershonites and the Merarites set out, transporting it.
- גֵרְשׁוֹן֙gereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
Now these were the Levites numbered by their clans: The Gershonite clan from Gershon, the Kohathite clan from Kohath, and the Merarite clan from Merari.
- לְגֵרְשׁ֗וֹןlegereshonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Gershon
Joshua
two uses
The descendants of Gershon received thirteen cities by lot from the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.
- גֵרְשׁ֗וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
This is what the Levite clans of the Gershonites were given: From the half-tribe of Manasseh they were given Golan in Bashan, a city of refuge for the manslayer, and Beeshterah—two cities, together with their pasturelands.
- גֵרְשׁוֹן֮gereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
1 Chronicles
three uses
The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
- גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹןgereshonproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershon
from the Gershomites, Joel the chief and 130 of his relatives;
- גֵּרְשׁ֑וֹםgereshomproper noun (a name)tagged: Gershom
Then David divided the Levites into divisions according to the sons of Levi: Gershom, Kohath, and Merari.
- לְגֵרְשׁ֖וֹןlegereshonpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Gershon
The letters
Gematria 559· 1,209 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.