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HebrewH8095Proper Noun (Masculine)

שִׁמְעוֹן

shim.on

37Occurrences
H8095Strong's #
Proper Noun (Masculine)Part of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

Shimon, one of Jacob's sons, also the tribe descended from him

from H8085 (שָׁמַע); hearing;

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
A man of the tribe of Simeon living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at ; son of: Israel (H3478) and Leah (H3812); brother of: Reuben (H7205), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783); half-brother of: Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); married to Canaanite_woman (H3669); father of: Jemuel (H3223), Jamin (H3226), Ohad (H0161), Jachin (H3199), Zerah (H2226L) and Shaul (H7586H) § Simeon or Shimeon = "heard" 1) the 2nd son of Jacob by his wife Leah and progenitor of the tribe of Simeon 2) an Israelite of the sons of Bani who had a foreign wife in the time of Ezra

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Proper Noun (Masculine)

Morphology Code

N:N-M-P

Full Description

Proper Noun, Masculine

Occurrences

שִׁמְעוֹן appears 37 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Genesis
10
Numbers
9
Joshua
4
1 Chronicles
3
Ezk
3
2 Chronicles
2
Exodus
2
Judges
2

Key Passages

1 Chronicles 2:1BSB

These were the sons of Israel:Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun,

Exodus 6:15BSB

The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These were the clans of Simeon.

Genesis 34:30BSB

Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”

Genesis 49:5BSB

Simeon and Levi are brothers;their swords are weapons of violence.

Numbers 1:6BSB

from Simeon, Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.