How to Pronounce Gerasenes
DZHEHR-uh-seenz
Gerasenes is pronounced DZHEHR-uh-seenz: three syllables, stress on the first.
What is Gerasenes?
Gerasenes is the reading many manuscripts give for the people of the country across the lake where Jesus healed the man with the unclean spirit, a district the King James text calls the country of the Gadarenes (Mark 5:1, Luke 8:26). Matthew names the same district the country of the Gergesenes (Matthew 8:28).