STRONGS NUMBER H1617


Word Summary
Gera: the name of several Israelites, also a Benjamite family
Original Word: גֵּרָא
Transliteration: Gera
Phonetic Spelling: (gay-raw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: the name of several Israelites, also a Benjamite family
Meaning: Gera -- the name of several Israelites, also a Benjamite family
Strong's Concordance
Gera

Perhaps from gerah; a grain; Gera, the name of six Israelites -- Gera.

see HEBREW gerah

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H1617. Gera

גֵּרָאproper name, masculine (Phoenician גרא‎) son of Benjamin Genesis 46:21 (lacking Numbers 26:38-40); son of Bela`, & grandson of Benjamin, according to 1 Chronicles 8:3, 5 compare 8:7; designation of a Benjamite family or clan; hence Ehud called בֶּןגֵּֿרָאJudges 3:15, & so Shimei, 2 Samuel 16:5; 19:17; 19:19; 1 Kings 2:8.

גרב‎ (√ of following; Arabic , Aramaic (have the scab etc.), are apparently denominative)