出埃及记 2:22

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

西坡拉生了一個兒子，摩西給他起名叫革舜，因為他說：“我在異地作了客旅。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
西 坡 拉 生 了 一 个 儿 子 ， 摩 西 给 他 起 名 叫 革 舜 ， 意 思 说 ： 「 因 我 在 外 邦 作 了 寄 居 的 。 」

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ There was a priest in Midian who had seven daughters. His daughters went to that well to get water to fill the water troughs for their father's flock. ¹⁷ Some shepherds came and chased the girls away, but Moses defended the girls and watered their flock. ¹⁸ When they went back to their father Reuel, he asked them, "Why have you come home early today?" ¹⁹ The girls answered, "The shepherds chased us away, but an Egyptian defended us. He got water for us and watered our flock." ²⁰ He asked his daughters, "Where is this man? Why did you leave him? Invite him to eat with us." ²¹ Moses agreed to stay with Jethro, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses to be his wife. ²² Zipporah gave birth to a son. Moses named him Gershom, because Moses was a stranger in a land that was not his own.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Gershom: i.e. a stranger here, 1 Chronicles 23:14-17

for he said: Exodus 2:10, Exodus 18:3, Exodus 22:21, 1 Chronicles 16:20, 1 Chronicles 29:15, Psalms 39:12, Psalms 119:19, Acts 7:29, Hebrews 11:13, Hebrews 11:14

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 1:20 - when the time was come about 1 Chronicles 6:43 - Gershom 1 Chronicles 6:62 - Gershom 1 Chronicles 23:15 - Gershom

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 2:19
From the ground God formed every wild animal and every bird in the sky, and he brought them to the man so the man could name them. Whatever the man called each living thing, that became its name.

Psalms 127:1

A song for going up to worship. Of Solomon.

If the Lord doesn't build the house, the builders are working for nothing. If the Lord doesn't guard the city, the guards are watching for nothing.

Proverbs 18:22
When a man finds a wife, he finds something good. It shows that the Lord is pleased with him.

Proverbs 19:14
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a wise wife is a gift from the Lord .

1 Timothy 2:13
because Adam was formed first and then Eve.

Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be honored by everyone, and husband and wife should keep their marriage pure. God will judge as guilty those who take part in sexual sins.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom,.... Which signifies a "desolate stranger"; partly on his own account, he being in a foreign country, a stranger and sojourner; but not by way of complaint, but rather of thankfulness to God for providing so well for him in it; and partly on his son's account, that when he came to years of maturity and knowledge, he might learn, and in which Moses no doubt instructed him, that he was not to look upon Midian as his proper country, but that he was to be heir of the land of Canaan, and which he might be reminded of by his name:

for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land; so Midian was to him, who was born in Egypt, and being an Hebrew, was entitled to the land of Canaan; this looks as if he had been at this time some years in Midian.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Gershom - The first syllable “Ger” is common to Hebrew and Egyptian, and means “sojourner.” The second syllable “Shom” answers exactly to the Coptic “Shemmo,” which means “a foreign or strange land.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 2:22. Called his name Gershom — Literally, a stranger; the reason of which Moses immediately adds, for I have been an ALIEN in a strange land.

The Vulgate, the Septuagint, as it stands in the Complutensian Polyglot, and in several MSS., the Syriac, the Coptic, and the Arabic, add the following words to this verse: And the name of the second he called Eliezer, for the God of my father has been my help, and delivered me from the hand of Pharaoh. These words are found in Exodus 18:4, but they are certainly necessary here, for it is very likely that these two sons were born within a short space of each other; for in Exodus 4:20, it is said, Moses took his wife and his SONS, by which it is plain that he had both Gershom and Eliezer at that time. Houbigant introduces this addition in his Latin version, and contends that this is its most proper place. Notwithstanding the authority of the above versions, the clause is found in no copy, printed or MS., of the Hebrew text.