Person
Simeon
Shimon
שִׁמְעוֹן
Heard.
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Simeon is Jacob’s second son by Leah. His tribe’s inheritance lay within Judah’s territory. With Levi he was noted for violence at Shechem.
Strong’s
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שִׁמְעוֹן H8095
Shimʻôwn · shim-one'
Shimon, one of Jacob's sons, also the tribe descended from him
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.
שִׁמְעוֺן H8095
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; Exod 1:2 + 14 t. (associated especially with Levi Gen 34:25; Gen 34:30; Gen 49:5).
2. tribal name Judg 1:3 (twice in verse); Judg 1:17; Num 1:6 +; so ׳גְּנֵי שׁ Num 1:22 + 7 t., ׳מַטֵה שׁ Num 1:23; Num 2:12; Num 13:5 ׳מַטֵּה גְנֵי שׁ Num 10:19; Num 34:20; Josh 19:1; Josh 19:8; Josh 21:9; 1Chr 6:50.
3. post-exilic Jew with foreign wife Ezra 10:31.