Bible Person

Gera

Meaning: pilgrimage · Male · 3 cross references

This Gera entry refers to Gera the father of Ehud, not the other Geras already separately overridden in Benjaminite and Saulide contexts. His significance comes through his son, the left-handed deliverer in Judges. First appears in Gen 46:21.1

AI summary: This Gera matters because the cross references preserve him through Ehud, whose mission against Eglon becomes one of the most memorable deliverances in Judges. The patronymic ties that act of rescue to a specific Benjaminite household. Taken together, the material presents this Gera as the remembered father behind Ehud's decisive role in Israel's deliverance.1