Strong's Concordance Gerasénos: Gerasene, of Gerasa, a city East of the Jordan Original Word: Γεργεσηνός, ή, όνPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: Gerasénos Phonetic Spelling: (gher-ghes-ay-nos') Definition: Gerasene, of Gerasa, a city East of the Jordan Usage: from Gerasene. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originof uncertain origin Definition Gerasene, of Gerasa, a city E. of the Jordan NASB Translation Gerasenes (3). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 1086: ΓεργεσηνόςΓεργεσηνός, Γεργεσηνη, Γεργεσηνον, Gergesene, belonging to the city Gergesa, which is assumed to have been situated on the eastern shore of Lake Gennesaret: Matthew 8:28 Rec. But this reading depends on the authority and opinion of Origen, who thought the variants found in his manuscripts Γαδαρηνῶν and Γερασηνῶν (see these words) must be made to conform to the testimony of those who said that there was formerly a certain city Gergesa near the lake. But Josephus knows nothing of it, and states expressly (Antiquities 1, 6, 2), that no trace of the ancient Gergesites (A. V. Girgashites, cf. B. D. under the word) (mentioned Genesis 15:20; Joshua 24:11) had survived, except the names preserved in the O. T. Hence, in Matthew 8:28 we must read Γαδαρηνῶν (so T Tr WH) and suppose that the jurisdiction of the city Gadara extended quite to the Lake of Gennesaret; but that Matthew (Matthew 8:34) erroneously thought that this city was situated on the lake itself. For in Mark 5:14; Luke 8:34, there is no objection to the supposition that the men came to Jesus from the rural districts alone. (But for the light thrown on this matter by modern research, see B. D. American edition under the word Strong's Exhaustive Concordance Gergesene. Of Hebrew origin (Girgashiy); a Gergesene (i.e. Girgashite) or one of the aborigines of Palestine -- Gergesene. see HEBREW Girgashiy Forms and Transliterations Γερασηνων Γερασηνῶν Gerasenon Gerasenôn Gerasēnōn Gerasēnō̂nLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts |
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