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# גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1649

**Gereshonite** — used 13 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

Gereshonite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1649/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1649/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. c. art. as subst. collect. Nu 3:21, 23, 24; 4:24, 27, 28; 26:57; Jos 21:33; 1 Ch 23:7; 26:21; 2 Ch 29:12; c. art. as adj. sing. m. 1 Ch 26:21; 29:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 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, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the Gershonite\[s\] (8); Gershonite\[s\] (3); Gershonite (2).

## In the verses

[1 Chronicles 23:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.23.7/#tree)

לַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֖י לַעְדָּ֥ן וְשִׁמְעִֽי׃ס

*Word for word:* \[belonged\].to the Gershonite\[s\] Ladan and Shimei

*JPS 1917:* Of the Gershonites: Ladan, and Shimei.

[Numbers 3:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.3.23/#tree)

מִשְׁפְּחֹ֖ת הַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֑י אַחֲרֵ֧י הַמִּשְׁכָּ֛ן יַחֲנ֖וּ יָֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* the.clans of the.Gershonite\[s\] behind the tabernacle they.will.encamp westward

*JPS 1917:* The families of the Gershonites were to pitch behind the tabernacle westward;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1649.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1649/): 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).