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Wikipedia / Simeon

Simeon () is a given name, from the Hebrew (Biblical Šimʿon, Tiberian Šimʿôn), usually transliterated in English as Shimon. In Greek, it is written Συμεών, hence the Latinized spelling Symeon. It is a cognate of the name Simon.

Meaning

The name is derived from Simeon, son of Jacob and Leah, patriarch of the Tribe of Simeon. The text of Genesis (29:33) states that the name of Simeon refers to Leah's belief that God had heard that she was hated by Jacob, in the sense of not being as favoured as Rachel. Implying a derivation from the Hebrew term shama on, meaning "he has heard"; this is a similar etymology as the Torah gives for the theophoric name Ishmael ("God has heard"; Genesis 16:11), on the basis of which it has been argued that the tribe of Simeon may originally have been an Ishmaelite group (Cheyne and Black, Encyclopaedia Biblica). Alternatively, Hitzig, W. R. Smith, Stade, and Kerber compared שִׁמְעוֹן Šīmə‘ōn to Arabic سِمع simˤ "the offspring of the hyena and the female wolf"; as supports, Smith points to Arabic tribal names Simˤ "a subdivision of the defenders (the Medinites)" and Samˤān "a subdivision of Tamim".

In classical rabbinical sources, the name is sometimes interpreted as meaning "he who listens [to the words of God]" (Genesis Rabbah 61:4), and at other times thought to derive from sham 'in, meaning "there is sin", which is argued to be a prophetic reference to Zimri's sexual miscegenation with a Midianite woman, a type of relationship which rabbinical sources regard as sinful (Jewish Encyclopedia).

In the Bible

Persons with the given name

Up to 1700

  1. Ordered chronologically.

  2. Simeon of Jerusalem (15–14 BC–c. 107 or 117), 2nd Bishop of Jerusalem, perhaps one of the Seventy Apostles sent out by Jesus

  3. Simeon ben Gamliel, Nasi of the Sanhedrin in 50 AD

  4. Simeon ben Gamliel II, Nasi of the Sanhedrin in c. 118 AD

  5. Simeon Bar Kokhba, leader of the Bar Kokhba revolt

  6. Simeon bar Yochai, rabbi of the Tannaim period, possibly the author of the Zohar

  7. Simeon Stylites (c. 388–459 AD), Christian pillar-hermit from Sisan, Syria

  8. Simeon Stylites III, 5th-century pillar-hermit

  9. Simeon Stylites the Younger (521–597 AD), hermit and pillar-hermit from Antioch

  10. Simeon, the name of one priest and one deacon martyred with Abda and Abdjesus

  11. Simeon the Holy Fool, 6th-century Christian saint and hermit

  12. Simeon I of Bulgaria (866–927), Bulgarian tsar

  13. Symeon Metaphrastes (10th century?), Byzantine hagiographer

  14. Symeon the New Theologian (949–1022), Eastern Orthodox saint

  15. Simeon (abbot) (994–1094), Abbot of Ely Cathedral

  16. Simeon Seth (fl. 1070), Jewish Byzantine physician, writer, and grand chamberlain from Antioch

  17. Simeon of Mantua (died 1016), Armenian monk

  18. Symeon of Durham (died after 1129), English chronicler and monk of Durham Priory

  19. Stefan Nemanja (1113–1199), canonized as Saint Simeon, Serbian ruler and saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church

  20. Simeon of Moscow, 14th-century Grand Prince of Moscow

  21. Simeon Uroš, 14th-century ruler of Epirus and Thessaly

  22. Simon of Trent, 15th-century boy supposedly killed by Jews, and formerly a martyr of the Catholic Church

  23. Patriarch Symeon I of Constantinople, or Symeon of Trebizond, reigned three times: 1466, 1471–1475 and 1482–1486

  24. Simeon Bekbulatovich, de jure Tsar of Russia (1575–1576)

  25. Symeon of Polotsk (1629–1680), Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener

Since 1700

  1. Ordered alphabetically by last name.

  2. Simeon Barrow (born 2002), American football player

  3. Semyon Belits-Geiman (born 1945), former Soviet Olympic freestyle swimmer

  4. Simeon Brown (born 1991), New Zealand politician

  5. Simeon B. Brown (1812–1893), American brigadier general

  6. Semyon Budyonny (1883–1973), Soviet military commander

  7. Simeon Cottle (born 2004), American basketball player

  8. Simeon Coxe (usually known only as Simeon), American musician, singer and synth player of Silver Apples

  9. Simeon Jocelyn (1799-1879), minister and abolitionist

  10. Simeon Mangiuca (1831–1890), Austro-Hungarian Romanian folklorist

  11. Simeon V. Marcelo (born 1953), Filipino lawyer and former Ombudsman and Solicitor-General of the Philippines

  12. Simeon North (1765–1852), American gunmaker

  13. Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840), French mathematician

  14. Simeon Rice (born 1974), American football player

  15. Simeon Woods Richardson (born 2000), American professional baseball player

  16. Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (born 1937), Tsar of Bulgaria (1943–1946), prime minister of Bulgaria (2001–2005)

  17. Semyon Sereda (1871–1933), Soviet politician

  18. Simeon Solomon (1840-1905), British painter

  19. Simeon Thomas (born 1993), American football player

  20. Simeon Tienpont (born 1982), Dutch sailor

  21. Semyon Varlamov (born 1988), Russian ice hockey player

  22. Simeon S. Willis (1879–1965), American lawyer, judge, and politician from Kentucky

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