Γεργεσηνός, -7, -dv, Gergesene, belonging to the city Gergesa, which is assumed to have been situated on the eastern shore of Lake Gennesaret: Mt. viii. 28 Rec. But this reading depends on the authority and opinion of Origen, who thought the variants found in his Mss. Γαδαρηνῶν and Γερασηνῶν (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 Josephus knows nothing of it, and states expressly (antt. 1, 6, 2), that no trace of the ancient Gergesites [A. V. Girgashites, cf. B. D. s. v.] (mentioned Gen. xv. 20; Josh. xxiv. 11) had survived, except the names preserved in the O. T. Hence in Mt. viii. 28 we must read Tadaρηνῶν [so T Tr WH] and suppose that the jurisdiction of the city Gadara extended quite to the Lakeof Gennesaret; but that Matthew (viii. 34) erroneously thought that this city was situated on the lake itself. For in Mk. y. 14 sq.; Lk. viii. 34, 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 B. D. Am. ed. s. v. Gadara; Thomson, The Land and the Book, ii. 84 sqq.; Wilson in “ The Recovery of Jerusalem ” p. 286 sq.]

Γεργεσηνός, -ή, -όν, Gergesene: Lk 8:26, 37 TR, mg. 1 (LTr., WH, R, txt., Γερασηνῶν; R, mg. 2, Γαδαρηνῶν).†

Γερασηνός (Gerasēnos) — Gerasene. Γεργασηνός, -ή, -όν, Gerasene, of Gerasa, not the G. of Decapolis, 30 m. S.E. of the Lake, but a Gerasa or Gergesa (perh. the mod. Kersa) on E. shore; as subst., pl. οἱ Γ., Mrk.5:1, Luk.8:26, 37 (Γεργεσηνῶν, RV, mg. 1; Γαδαρηνῶν, RV, mg. 2).† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)

Γεργεσηνός (Gergesēnos) — Gergasene. Γεργασηνός, -ή, -όν, Gerasene, of Gerasa, not the G. of Decapolis, 30 m. S.E. of the Lake, but a Gerasa or Gergesa (perh. the mod. Kersa) on E. shore; as subst., pl. οἱ Γ., Mrk.5:1, Luk.8:26, 37 (Γεργεσηνῶν, RV, mg. 1; Γαδαρηνῶν, RV, mg. 2).† (From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)