Gershom. — Almost certainly from ger, “a stranger,” and shâm, “there.” So Jerome, who translates it advena ibi. (Comp. Josephus and the LXX., who write the name Gersam.)
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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.