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# גֵּרָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1617

**Gera** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Gera [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1617/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּרָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1617/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (Ph. גרא) son of Benjamin Gn 46:21 (lacking Nu 26:38–40); son of Belaʿ, & grandson of Benj., according to 1 Ch 8:3, 5 cf. v 7; designation of a Benjamite family or clan; hence Ehud called בֶּן־גֵּרָא Ju 3:15, & so Shimei, 2 S 16:5; 19:17, 19 1 K 2:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 9 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Gera (5); Gera (4).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 8:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.5/#tree)

וְגֵרָ֥א וּשְׁפוּפָ֖ן וְחוּרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* and Gera and Shephuphan and Huram

*JPS 1917:* and Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.

[1 Chronicles 8:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.8.3/#tree)

וַיִּהְי֥וּ בָנִ֖ים לְבָ֑לַע אַדָּ֥ר וְגֵרָ֖א וַאֲבִיהֽוּד׃

*Word for word:* and they.belonged sons to Bela Addar and Gera and Abihud

*JPS 1917:* And Bela had sons, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1617.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1617/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).