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# גֵּרְשׁוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1647

**Gershon** — used 17 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

Gershon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1647/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּרְשׁוֹן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1647/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. son of Levi (= גרשׁם 1 Ch 6:1, 28; 15:7 גרשׁום 1 Ch 6:2, 5, 47, 56) Gn 46:11; Ex 6:16, 17 Nu 3:17, 18, 21, 25; 4:22, 38, 41; 7:7; 10:17; 26:57; Jos 21:6, 27; 1 Ch 5:27; 23:6 (particularly in expression sons of Gershon, i.e. family, descendants of Gershon Nu 3:25; 4:22, 38, 41; 7:7; 10:17 Jos 21:6, 27; cf. sons of Gershom 1 Ch 6:47, 56; 15:7).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 17 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Gershon (10); Gershon (6); \[were\] Gershon (1).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 5:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.5.27/#tree)

בְּנֵ֖י לֵוִ֑י גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן קְהָ֖ת וּמְרָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Levi \[were\].Gershon Kohath and Merari

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

[Genesis 46:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.46.11/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֖י לֵוִ֑י גֵּרְשׁ֕וֹן קְהָ֖ת וּמְרָרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Levi Gershon Kohath and Merari

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1647/): 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).