Simeon

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From Middle English Simeon, from Latin Simeon, from Ancient Greek Σῠμεών (Sumeṓn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿôn, “hearkening, listening”), originally referring to Simeon, a son of Jacob. Doublet of Simon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɪ.mi.ən/
• Rhymes: -ɪmiən
• Hyphenation: Si‧me‧on
• Homophone: simian

Simeon

2. (biblical) Second son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Genesis 35:22–26, column 2:

     Now the ſonnes of Iacob were twelue. 23 The ſonnes of Leah: Reuben Iacobs firſt borne, and Simeon, and Leui, and Iudah, and Iſſachar, and Zebulun. 24 The ſonnes of Rachel: Ioſeph, and Beniamin. 25 And the ſonnes of Bilhah, Rachels handmaid: Dan and Naphtali. 26 And the ſonnes of Zilpah, Leahs handmaid: Gad, and Aſher. Theſe are the ſonnes of Iacob, which were borne to him in Padan Aram.

3. (biblical) One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Simeon.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Joshua 19:1, column 2:

     And the ſecond lot came foorth to Simeon, euen for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Iudah.

4. A male given name from Hebrew.
5. A surname.
6. An unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States.
7. An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States.

• Simeonite

• Simeon (Bible) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Emison, Neoism, Siemon, Simone, eonism, mesion, moesin, monies, semion

From English Simeon, from Old Testament Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (“hearkening, listening”). Also from Spanish Simeon.

• Hyphenation: Si‧meon

Simeon

1. a male given name from English or Spanish
2. (biblical) Simeon
3. the tribe of Simeon

From Latin Simeon, from Ancient Greek Σῠμεών (Sumeṓn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿôn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsimeon/,
• Rhymes: -imeon
• Hyphenation^(key): Si‧me‧on

Simeon

1. Simeon (biblical figure)
2. a male given name

• Simeon is the 660^th (tied with 1 other name) most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 240 male individuals (and as a middle name to 755 more, making it more common as a middle name), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

 Simon on Latin Wikipedia

• Symeōn

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Σῠμεών (Sumeṓn), from Old Testament Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿôn, literally “hearkening, listening”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.me.oːn/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.me.on/,

Simeōn m sg (variously declined, genitive Simeōn or Simeōnis); indeclinable, third declension

1. Simeon (Biblical figure, son of Jacob)
2. other Biblical characters of the same name

Indeclinable noun or third-declension noun, singular only.

• → Middle English: Simeon, Symeon
  • English: Simeon

• Sĭmĕōn in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,443/1.

• Symeon

From Latin Simeōn.

Simeon

1. Simeon
   • a. 1500 [a. 1400?], Stanzaic Life of Christ; quoted in “In the Long Run: Practical Time in the Chester Plays”, in Matthew Sergi, Practical Cues and Social Spectacle in the Chester Plays, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2020, →ISBN, page 174:

     Ones I rede that Simeon, / A qvile bifore that Crist was born, / Isaias boke he loket opon […] When Simeon segh þis ilk thing, / Merueilet wonderly he was, / And hopide hit hade ben fals wrytyng

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• English: Simeon

• “Simeon”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Simeon m (Cyrillic spelling Симеон)

1. a male given name

• “Simeon”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2024