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Simeon (Hebrew Bible) in Wikipedia

According to the Book of Genesis, Simeon (Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן, Shim'on) was, the second son of Jacob and Leah, and the founder of the Israelite Tribe of Simeon. However, some Biblical scholars view this as postdiction, an eponymous metaphor providing an etiology of the connectedness of the tribe to others in the Israelite confederation[1]. With ...

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Simeon Scripture - Revelation 7:7

Of the tribe of Simeon [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi [were] sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar [were] sealed twelve thousand....

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Simon in Wikipedia

Simon is a common name, from Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן Šimʻôn, meaning "he [God] has heard."...

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Simeon Scripture - 1 Chronicles 6:65

And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities, which are called by [their] names....

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Simri Scripture - 1 Chronicles 26:10

Also Hosah, of the children of Merari, had sons; Simri the chief, (for [though] he was not the firstborn, yet his father made him the chief;)...

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Sibbecai Scripture - 1 Chronicles 27:11

The eighth [captain] for the eighth month [was] Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course [were] twenty and four thousand....

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Simeon Scripture - Genesis 48:5

And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, [are] mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine....

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Sisera Scripture - Judges 5:30

Have they not sped? have they [not] divided the prey; to every man a damsel [or] two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, [meet] for the necks of [them that take] the spoil?...

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Sibbecai Scripture - 1 Chronicles 11:29

Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,...

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Simeon in Wikipedia

Simeon, or Shimon is a given name, from the Hebrew שמעון (Biblical Šimʿon, Tiberian Šimʿôn), pronounced /ˈsɪmiən/. In Greek, it is written Συμεών, hence the Latinized spelling Symeon. The name is derived from Simeon, son of Jacob and Leah, patriarch of the Tribe of Simeon. The text of Genesis (29:33) argues that the name of Simeon refers to Le...

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