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Strong's #8095 - שִׁמְעוֹן
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- Simeon or Shimeon = "heard"
- the 2nd son of Jacob by his wife Leah and progenitor of the tribe of Simeon
- an Israelite of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra
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1 second son of Jacob and Leath, Συμεωη: Genesis 29:33 (name explanation from שָׁמַע), Genesis 35:23; Exodus 1:2 14t. (associated especially with Levi Genesis 34:25,30; Genesis 49:5).
2 tribal name Judges 1:3 (twice in verse); Judges 1:17; Numbers 1:6 +; so ׳גְּנֵי שׁ Numbers 1:22 7t., ׳מַטֵה שׁ Numbers 1:23; Numbers 2:12; Numbers 13:5; ׳מַטֵּה גְנֵי שׁ Numbers 10:19; Numbers 34:20; Joshua 19:1,8; Joshua 21:9; 1 Chronicles 6:50.
3 post-exilic Jew with foreign wife Ezra 10:31.
שִׁמְעוֹן (“hearing with acceptance”), pr.n. Simeon (Gr. Συμεών); borne by
(1) a son of Jacob, by Leah (Genesis 29:33), the ancestor of the tribe of that name, the cities of which are mentioned as situated in the territory of the tribe of Judah, -Joshua 19:19.
(2) Ezra 10:31. Patron. is שִׁמְעֹנִי Numbers 25:14.