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HebrewH1649Noun

גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי

ge.re.shun.ni

12Occurrences
H1649Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a Gereshonite or descendant of Gereshon

patronymically from H1648 (גֵּרְשׁוֹן);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
Someone descended from Gershon who was a man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at ; son of: Levi (H3878); brother of: Kohath (H6955), Merari (H4847) and Jochebed (H3115); father of: Libni (H3845) and Shimei (H8096); also called Gershom at ; Group of ge.re.shon (*גֵּרְשׁוֹן *"Gershon" H1648) § Gershonite, of Geshur a descendant of Gershon, firstborn son of Levi

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--PG

Full Description

N:N--PG

Occurrences

גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי appears 12 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Numbers
7
1 Chronicles
3
2 Chronicles
1
Joshua
1

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 23:7BSB

The Gershonites: Ladan and Shimei.

1 Chronicles 29:8BSB

Whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

Joshua 21:33BSB

In all, thirteen cities, together with their pasturelands, were given to the Gershonite clans.

Numbers 3:21BSB

From Gershon came the Libnite clan and the Shimeite clan; these were the Gershonite clans.

Numbers 3:24BSB

and the leader of the families of the Gershonites was Eliasaph son of Lael.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.