GERSHOM ():

By: Emil G. Hirsch, M. Seligsohn

First-born son of Moses and Zipporah (Ex. ii. 22, xviii. 3). The circumcision of a child of Moses described in Ex. iv. 25 is evidently that of Gershom, but the Midrash refers it to Eliezer. As to the Gershom mentioned in Judges xviii. 30 see Jonathan (son of Gershom). Gershom is mentioned in I Chron. xxiii. 15-16, xxvi. 24 as the founder of a Levitic family.

E. G. H. M. Sel.