Gershom

(a stranger or exile).

• The first-born son of Moses and Zipporah. (Exodus 2:22; 18:3) (B.C. 1530.)
• The form under which the name Gershon—the eldest son of Levi—is given in several passages of Chronicles, viz., (1 Chronicles 6:16,17,20,43,62,71; 15:7)
• The representative of the priestly family of Phinehas, among those who accompanied Ezra from Babylon. (Ezra 8:2) (B.C. 536.)