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Gerasénos <a href="../greek/1087.htm" title="1087">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Lexicon</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">Gerasénos: Gerasene</span></div><p><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="greek">Γερασηνός</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Noun, Masculine<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>Gerasénos<br><span class="tophdg">Pronunciation: </span>ghe-ras-ay-nos'<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(gher-ghes-ay-nos')<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>Gerasene<br><span class="tophdg">Meaning: </span>from Gerasene.<p><span class="tophdg">Word Origin: </span>Derived from Γέρασα (Gerasa), a city of the Decapolis<p><span class="tophdg">Corresponding Greek / Hebrew Entries: </span>There is no direct Hebrew equivalent for "Gerasénos," as it is a term specific to the Greek New Testament and refers to a geographical location outside of traditional Jewish territories.<p><span class="tophdg">Usage: </span>The term "Gerasénos" refers to an inhabitant of Gerasa, a city located in the region of the Decapolis, east of the Jordan River. In the New Testament, it is used to describe the people living in the area where Jesus performed the miracle of casting demons out of a man and into a herd of pigs.<p><span class="tophdg">Cultural and Historical Background: </span>Gerasa was one of the cities of the Decapolis, a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Judea and Syria. These cities were centers of Greek and Roman culture in a predominantly Semitic region. The Decapolis was known for its Hellenistic influence, which often clashed with Jewish customs and beliefs. The presence of a large herd of pigs in the Gerasene region, as mentioned in the Gospels, underscores the cultural differences, as pigs were considered unclean animals in Jewish law.<div class="vheading2">NAS Exhaustive Concordance</div><span class="hdg">Word Origin</span><br>of uncertain origin<br><span class="hdg">Definition</span><br>Gerasene, of Gerasa, a city E. of the Jordan<br><span class="hdg">NASB Translation</span><br>Gerasenes (3).<p><div align="center"><span class="smalltext"><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/nasec.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe></span></div><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 1086: Γεργεσηνός</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">Γεργεσηνός</span></span>, <span class="greek2">Γεργεσηνη</span>, <span class="greek2">Γεργεσηνον</span>, <span class="accented">Gergesene,</span> belonging to the city Gergesa, which is assumed to have been situated on the eastern shore of Lake Gennesaret: <a href="/interlinear/matthew/8-28.htm">Matthew 8:28</a> <span class="manuref">Rec.</span> But this reading depends on the authority and opinion of <span class="abbreviation">Origen</span>, who thought the variants found in his manuscripts <span class="greek2">Γαδαρηνῶν</span> and <span class="greek2">Γερασηνῶν</span> (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 <span class="abbreviation">Josephus</span> knows nothing of it, and states expressly (Antiquities 1, 6, 2), that no trace of the ancient Gergesites (<span class="abbreviation">A. V.</span> Girgashites, cf. <span class="abbreviation">B. D.</span> under the word) (mentioned <a href="/interlinear/genesis/15-20.htm">Genesis 15:20</a>; <a href="/interlinear/joshua/24-11.htm">Joshua 24:11</a>) had survived, except the names preserved in the O. T. Hence, in <a href="/interlinear/matthew/8-28.htm">Matthew 8:28</a> we must read <span class="greek2">Γαδαρηνῶν</span> (so <span class="manuref">T</span> <span class="manuref">Tr</span> <span class="manuref">WH</span>) and suppose that the jurisdiction of the city Gadara extended quite to the Lake of Gennesaret; but that Matthew (<a href="/interlinear/matthew/8-34.htm">Matthew 8:34</a>) erroneously thought that this city was situated on the lake itself. For in <a href="/interlinear/mark/5-14.htm">Mark 5:14</a>; <a href="/interlinear/luke/8-34.htm">Luke 8:34</a>, 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 <span class="abbreviation">B. D.</span> American edition under the word <REFERENCE_WORK:Smith's Bible Dictionary><TOPIC:Gadara>; Thomson, The Land and the Book, ii. 34ff; Wilson in <span class="accented">The Recovery of Jerusalem</span>, p. 286f.)<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>Gergesene. <p>Of Hebrew origin (<a href="/hebrew/1622.htm">Girgashiy</a>); a Gergesene (i.e. Girgashite) or one of the aborigines of Palestine -- Gergesene. <p>see HEBREW <a href="/hebrew/1622.htm">Girgashiy</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>Γερασηνων Γερασηνῶν Gerasenon Gerasenôn Gerasēnōn Gerasēnō̂n<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/text/mark/5-1.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Mark 5:1</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural">N-GMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/5.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">χώραν τῶν <b>Γερασηνῶν</b> </span><br><a href="/interlinear/mark/5-1.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> region of the <span class="itali">Gerasenes</span><p><b><a href="/text/luke/8-26.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 8:26</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural">N-GMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/8.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">χώραν τῶν <b>Γερασηνῶν</b> ἥτις ἐστὶν</span><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/8-26.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> region of the <span class="itali">Gerasenes</span> which is<p><b><a href="/text/luke/8-37.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 8:37</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Noun - Genitive Masculine Plural">N-GMP</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/8.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">περιχώρου τῶν <b>Γερασηνῶν</b> ἀπελθεῖν ἀπ'</span><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/8-37.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> region around of the <span class="itali">Gerasenes</span> to depart from<p><b><a href="/greek/1086.htm">Strong's Greek 1086</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_1086.htm">3 Occurrences</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/gerase_no_n_1086.htm">Γερασηνῶν — 3 Occ.</a><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><br /><br /> </div> <div id="left"><a href="/greek/1085.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1085"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1085" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/1087.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1087"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1087" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>