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title: גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי — Gereshonite · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי (1649), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 13 times: Gereshonite. BDB 1906: adj.gent. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי

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«גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Gereshonite** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 13 times · **Key:** 1649 · **BDB:** גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי

### Glosses

the.Gershonite\[s\] (8); Gershonite\[s\] (3); Gershonite (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֵּרְשֻׁנִּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1649/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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לַגֵּרְשֻׁנִּ֖י לַעְדָּ֥ן וְשִׁמְעִֽי׃ס

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

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

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

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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;

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