Exodus 2:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

Gershom - The first syllable “Ger” is common to Hebrew and Egyptian, and means “sojourner.” The second syllable “Shom” answers exactly to the Coptic “Shemmo,” which means “a foreign or strange land.”

Exodus 2:22

22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom:e for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.