Strong's #1617: Gera' (pronounced gay-raw')

perhaps from 1626; a grain; Gera, the name of six Israelites:--Gera.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gêrâ'

Gera = "a grain"

1) a son of Benjamin

2) a son of Bela and grandson of Benjamin

3) any member of the Gera family of the Benjamite tribe

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: perhaps from H1626

Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

 

Genesis 46:21: "were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi, and Rosh, Muppim,"
Judges 3:15: "Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man left-handed:"
2 Samuel 16:5: "of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed"
2 Samuel 19:16: "And Shimei the son of Gera, a Benjamite, which hasted"
2 Samuel 19:18: "good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over"
1 Kings 2:8: "thou hast with thee Shimei the son of Gera, of Bahurim, which"
1 Chronicles 8:3: "of Bela were, Addar, and Gera,"
1 Chronicles 8:5: " And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram."
1 Chronicles 8:7: "And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed Uzza,"