Bible Person
Meaning: pilgrimage · Male · 4 cross references
This Gera entry refers to Gera the father of Shimei, the Benjaminite who cursed David, not earlier Benjaminite ancestors of the same name. His significance comes through that volatile family connection in David's reign. First appears in 2 Sam 16:5.1
AI summary: This Gera matters because the cross references preserve him through Shimei, whose hostility toward David becomes one of the sharpest expressions of surviving Saulide resentment. Gera himself does not act, but the patronymic anchors Shimei's identity in a remembered Benjaminite line. Taken together, the material presents this Gera as the remembered father behind Shimei's bitter role in David's troubled years.1
Central Figure
Gera
Meaning: pilgrimage
The father of Shimei, who so grossly abused David (2 Sam.
Children
The father of Shimei, who so grossly abused David (2 Sam. 16:5; 19:16, 18). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.