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She bore a son, and he named him Gershom, for he said, “I have lived as a foreigner in a foreign land.”
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Verse 22. Gersam, or Gershom. This name signifies, a stranger there: as Eliezer signifies the help of God. Challoner.—And she, and so forth is wanting both in Hebrew and Chal. but found in the Complut. edit. of the Septuagint It occurs (Calmet. 18:4,) and we might naturally expect to find it in this place. Calmet.
“Gershom” sounds like the Hebrew for “an alien there”.
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