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שִׁמְעוֹן

Shimʻôwn · H8095 · Hebrew · proper noun · 44 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Meanings

  1. simeon, a man, tribe and territory

    The second son of Jacob and Leah and founder of one of the tribes of Israel

    Examples

    Genesis 29:33 Then she conceived again and gave birth to a son, and said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has therefore given me this son also.” So she named him Simeon.

    Genesis 34:25 Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons—Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers—each took his sword and came upon the city undetected, and killed every male.

    Genesis 34:30 Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble on me by making me repulsive among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and since my men are few in number, they will band together against me and attack me, and I will be destroyed, I and my household!”

  2. Simeon

    Man; member of clan of Harim

    Examples

    Ezra 10:31 and of the sons of Harim: Eliezer, Isshijah, Malchijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

3 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 5 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

24 occurrences in 6 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries
Names of People003001007
This proper name identifies Simeon, the second son born to Leah, as in Genesis 29:33's account of his naming.
Names of Groups003001006
This domain reflects this name's extended use for the tribe of Simeon descended from him, elsewhere in its occurrences rather than being illustrated by the patriarchal-narrative citations sampled here.
Names of Locations003001010
This domain reflects this name's extended use for the territory later allotted to the tribe of Simeon, elsewhere in its occurrences rather than being illustrated by the patriarchal-narrative citations sampled here.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8095. Shimon שִׁמְעוֺן44 proper name, masculine (compare proper name שמעון in Palmyrene…
H8095. Shimon
שִׁמְעוֺן44 proper name, masculine (compare proper name שמעון in Palmyrene Lzb378; meaning doubtful; Rs and others compare said to mean offspring of hyena and wolf; see HoggEBiv. 4531); —
1 second son of Jacob and Leath, Συμεωη: Gen 29:33 (name explanation from שָׁמַע), Gen 35:23; Exo 1:2 Exo 1:14t. (associated especially with Levi Gen 34:25, Gen 34:30; Gen 49:5).
2 tribal name Jdg 1:3 (twice in verse); Jdg 1:17; Num 1:6 +; so שׁ ׳גְּנֵי Num 1:22 Num 1:7t., שׁ ׳מַטֵה Num 1:23; Num 2:12; Num 13:5; שׁ גְנֵי ׳מַטֵּה Num 10:19; Num 34:20; Jos 19:1, Jos 19:8; Jos 21:9; 1Ch 6:50.
3 post-exilic Jew with foreign wife Ezr 10:31.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of People44 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

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