A name from Scripture
Gershom
GUR-shom
Meaning
Stranger there; Exile
Hebrew origin · Boy · First in Exodus
What it points to
Gershom embraces the stranger identity — living faithfully in foreign land while longing for the homeland God has promised.
Verses · King James Version
“And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.”
Exodus 2:22
“And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom.”
Exodus 18:3