Gera

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pilgrimage, combat; dispute
(same as Gerar)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


GERA.—One of Benjamin’s sons (Gen_46:21, omitted in Num_26:38-40). Acc. to 1Ch_8:3; 1Ch_8:8; 1Ch_8:7 he was a son of Bela and a grandson of Benjamin. Gera was evidently a well-known Benjamite clan, to which belonged Ehud (Jdg_3:15) and Shimel (2Sa_16:5; 2Sa_19:16; 2Sa_19:18, 1Ki_2:3).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Son, i.e. descendant, of Benjamin; enumerated in the list when Jacob went into Egypt (Gen_46:21); son of Bela (1Ch_8:3, where probably but one Gera is genuine); in the loins of his grandfather Benjamin then, but not actually born until after the going to Egypt and before Jacob's death. Numbers 26 omits Gera as not being head of a family hut being one of the Belaites; his mention in Genesis implies that ultimately he became head of a family. Gera, Ehud's ancestor, and Gera, Shimei's ancestor, is the same person (Jdg_3:15; 2Sa_16:5).
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Ge'ra. (a grain). One of the "sons," that is, descendants, of Benjamin. Gen_46:21. Gera, who is named, Jdg_3:15, as the ancestor of Ehud, and in 2Sa_16:5, as the ancestor of Shimei who cursed David, is probably also the same person, (though some consider them different persons).
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


gē?ra (גּרא, gērā', ?grain?): A family name of the tribe of Benjamin, hence, not necessarily a separate individual in (3) and (4) below:
(1) A son of Benjamin (Gen_46:21).
(2) According to 1Ch_8:3, 1Ch_8:5, 1Ch_8:7, son of Bela and grandson of Benjamin. The name is repeated (1Ch_8:5) in the list of Bela's sons.
(3) Father, or ancestor, of the judge Ehud (Jdg_3:15).
(4) Father, or ancestor, of Shimei, the Benjamite, who cursed David when he fled from Absalom (2Sa_16:5; 2Sa_19:16, 2Sa_19:18; 1Ki_2:8).

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Gera
(Heb. Gera', גֵּרָא, a grain SEE GERAH; Sept. Γηρά), the name of at least three Benjamites.
1. The son of Bela and grandson of Benjamin (1Ch_8:3); probably the same with the one mentioned (with some confusion) in 1Ch_8:5; 1Ch_8:7, unless one of these be identical with No. 2 below. In Gen_46:21, he is given as if directly the son of Benjamin; and he there appears among the descendants of Jacob, at the time of that patriarch's removal to Egypt, B.C. 1874. SEE JACOB. "Gera is not mentioned in the list of Benjamite families in Num_26:38-40, of which a very obvious explanation is that at that time he was not the head of a separate family, but was included among the Belaites; it being a matter of necessity that some of Bela's sons should be so included, otherwise there could be no family of Belaites at all. To the remarks made under Becher should be added that the great destruction of the Benjamites recorded in Judges 20 may account for the introduction of so many new names in the later Benjamite lists of 1 Chronicles 7, 8, of which several seem to be women's names" (Smith). SEE BENJAMIN. In 1Ch_7:7, UZZIEL occupies the same position as Gera elsewhere in the genealogy. SEE BELA.
2. The father (or ancestor) of Ehud the judge (Jdg_3:15); compare 1Ch_8:5; 1Ch_8:7; possibly identical with No. 1 above. B.C. ante 1509. SEE EHAUD.
3. The father (or ancestor) of Shimei, which latter so grossly abused David (2Sa_16:5; 2Sa_19:16; 2Sa_19:18; 1Ki_2:8); thought by some to be identical with both the foregoing. B.C. ante 1023. SEE SHIMEI.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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