Gerasene
Gerasenos identifies people or a country as belonging to the Gerasenes in the Gospel travel and departure scenes.
The attested form marks a country or region and its people as belonging to the Gerasenes: the narratives locate arrival there and describe the region's multitude asking Jesus to leave.
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Designation of the Gerasenes' country or region · dominant
The genitive plural masculine form identifies the country reached in Mark 5:1 and Luke 8:26; in Luke 8:37 it identifies the region whose multitude asks him to depart. In Mark 5:1 the APB renders the destination as "the country of the Gerasenes," while Luke 8:37 renders "the region of the Gerasenes."
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the verses, the APB presents the form in location phrases as "the country of the Gerasenes" and "the region of the Gerasenes." These are translation renderings of the clauses.