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From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 Gershom
    expulsion. (1.) The eldest son of Levi (1 Chr. 6:16, 17, 20, 43,
    62, 71; 15:7)=GERSHON (q.v.).
      (2.) The elder of the two sons of Moses born to him in Midian
    (Ex. 2:22; 18:3). On his way to Egypt with his family, in
    obedience to the command of the Lord, Moses was attacked by a
    sudden and dangerous illness (4:24-26), which Zipporah his wife
    believed to have been sent because he had neglected to
    circumcise his son. She accordingly took a "sharp stone" and
    circumcised her son Gershom, saying, "Surely a bloody husband
    art thou to me", i.e., by the blood of her child she had, as it
    were, purchased her husband, had won him back again.
      (3.) A descendant of Phinehas who returned with Ezra from
    Babylon (Ezra 8:2).
      (4.) The son of Manasseh (Judg. 18:30), in R.V. "of Moses."

From: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)

 Gershom, a stranger here