Simeon
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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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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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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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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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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sim'-e-on (shim`on; Sumeon; the Hebrew root is from shama`,
"to hear" (Gen 29:33); some modern scholars (Hitzig, W. R.
Smith, Stade, etc.) derive it from Arabic sima`, "the
offspring of the hyena and female wolf"): In Gen 29:33;
30:18-21; 35:23, Simeon is given as full brother to Reuben,
Levi, Judah, Issachar and Zebulun, the son of Leah; and ...
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-1. Son of Jacob
Ge 29:33; 35:23; Ex 1:1,2; 1Ch 2:1
With Levi avenges upon the Shechemites the seduction of
Dinah
Ge 34; 49:5-7
Jacob's denunciation of
Ge 34:30; 49:5-7
Goes down into Egypt to buy corn (graini); is imprisoned
by
Joseph, and is detained
Ge 42:24,36; 43:23
His sons
Ge 46:10; Ex 6:15; 1Ch 4:24-37
Descendants of
Nu 26:12-...
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(heard).
1. The second of Jacob's son by Leah. His birth is
recorded in Ge 29:33 The first group of Jacob's children
consists, besides Simeon, of the three other sons of Leah --
Reuben, Levi, Judah. Besides the massacre of Shechem, Ge
34:25 the only personal incident related of Simeon is the
fact of his being selected by Joseph as the hostage ...
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hearing. (1.) The second son of Jacob by Leah (Gen. 29:33).
He
was associated with Levi in the terrible act of
vengeance
against Hamor and the Shechemites (34:25, 26). He
was detained
by Joseph in Egypt as a hostage (42:24). His father,
when dying,
pronounced a malediction against him (49:5-7). The
words in the
Authorized Version (49:6), ...
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1. (See LEVI.) Jacob's second son by Leah, Genesis 29:33.
From shaama, "hear"; as the birth of Reuben ("see a son")
her firstborn convinced Leah that God saw her, so that of
Simeon that God heard her. Levi's and Simeon's slaughter of
the Shechemites (Genesis 34:25; Genesis 34:30) incurred
Jacob's reproof (Genesis 49:5-7). Judah and Simeon join...
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