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# שִׁמְעוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8095

**Simeon** — used 44 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Simeon [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8095/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁמְעוֹן: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8095/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (cf. n.pr. שמעון in Palm. Lzb 378; meaning doubtful; RS al. cp. سِمْعٌ, said to mean offspring of hyena and wolf; v. HoggEB iv. 4531);— second son of Jacob and Leah, Συμεων: Gn 29:33 (name expl. from שָׁמַע), 35:23 Ex 1:2 + 14 times (assoc. especially with Levi Gn 34:25, 30; 49:5). tribal name Ju 1:3(×2), 17 Nu 1:6 +; so בְּנֵי שׁ׳ Nu 1:22 + 7 times, מַטֵּה שׁ׳ Nu 1:23; 2:12; 13:5; מַטֵּה בְנֵי שׁ׳ 10:19; 34:20 Jos 19:1, 8; 21:9 1 Ch 6:50. post-ex.. Jew with foreign wife Ezr 10:31.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 20 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Simeon (23); Simeon (21).

## In the verses

[Exodus 1:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.1.2/#tree)

רְאוּבֵ֣ן שִׁמְע֔וֹן לֵוִ֖י וִיהוּדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Reuben Simeon Levi and Judah

*JPS 1917:* Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah;

[Numbers 1:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.1.6/#tree)

לְשִׁמְע֕וֹן שְׁלֻמִיאֵ֖ל בֶּן־צוּרִֽישַׁדָּֽי׃

*Word for word:* for Simeon Shelumiel the.son of.Zurishaddai

*JPS 1917:* Of Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8095/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).