# Simeon > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Simeon > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Simeon.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon > Source revision: 1334010331 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{other uses}} {{more citations needed|date=October 2021}} '''Simeon''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɪ|m|i|ən}}) is a given name, from the Hebrew {{lang|he|שמעון}} ([Biblical](/source/Biblical_Hebrew) ''Šimʿon'', [Tiberian](/source/Tiberian_vocalization) ''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](/source/Simon_(given_name)). ==Meaning== The name is derived from [Simeon](/source/Simeon_(son_of_Jacob)), son of [Jacob](/source/Jacob) and [Leah](/source/Leah), patriarch of the [Tribe of Simeon](/source/Tribe_of_Simeon). The text of [Genesis](/source/Book_of_Genesis) (29:33) argues that the name of ''Simeon'' refers to Leah's belief that [God](/source/Tetragrammaton) had heard that she was hated by Jacob, in the sense of not being as favoured as [Rachel](/source/Rachel). {{poemquote|{{lang|he|כִּי־שָׁמַע יְהוָה כִּי־שְׂנוּאָה אָנֹכִי וַיִּתֶּן־לִי גַּם־אֶת־זֶה וַתִּקְרָא שְׁמֹו שִׁמְעֹון׃}} Because the LORD had heard that I was hated, he had therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.}} Implying a derivation from the [Hebrew](/source/Hebrew_language) term ''shama on'', meaning "he has heard"; this is a similar etymology as the Torah gives for the theophoric name ''[Ishmael](/source/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](/source/Ishmaelites) group (Cheyne and Black, ''[Encyclopaedia Biblica](/source/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](/source/Medina))" and ''Samˤān'' "a subdivision of [Tamim](/source/Banu_Tamim)".''Encyclopædia Biblica: Q to Z'', edited by Thomas Kelly Chase. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Hw_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA4531 p. 4531] In [classical rabbinical sources](/source/classical_rabbinical_literature), the name is sometimes interpreted as meaning "he who listens [to the words of God]" ([Genesis Rabba](/source/Genesis_Rabba)h 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](/source/Zimri_(prince))'s sexual miscegenation with a [Midian](/source/Midian)ite woman, a type of relationship which rabbinical sources regard as sinful (''Jewish Encyclopedia''). ==In the Bible== *[Simeon (son of Jacob)](/source/Simeon_(son_of_Jacob)), in the Hebrew Bible *[Tribe of Simeon](/source/Tribe_of_Simeon), one of the twelve tribes of Israel *[Simeon the Just](/source/Simeon_the_Just) (3rd century BC?) a Jewish High Priest, also called "Simeon the Righteous" (not the same as the New Testament figure, below) *[Simeon (Gospel of Luke)](/source/Simeon_(Gospel_of_Luke)), figure in the New Testament who blessed Jesus and his parents in the Jerusalem temple *[Simeon Niger](/source/Simeon_Niger), person in the Book of Acts ==Persons with the given name== ===Up to 1700=== :''Ordered chronologically.'' *[Simeon of Jerusalem](/source/Simeon_of_Jerusalem) (15–14 BC–c. 107 or 117), 2nd Bishop of Jerusalem, perhaps one of the Seventy Apostles sent out by Jesus *[Simeon ben Gamliel](/source/Simeon_ben_Gamliel), Nasi of the Sanhedrin in 50 AD *[Simeon ben Gamliel II](/source/Simeon_ben_Gamliel_II), Nasi of the Sanhedrin in c. 118 AD *[Simeon Bar Kokhba](/source/Simeon_Bar_Kokhba), leader of the Bar Kokhba revolt *[Simeon bar Yochai](/source/Simeon_bar_Yochai), rabbi of the Tannaim period, possibly the author of the ''Zohar'' *[Simeon Stylites](/source/Simeon_Stylites) (c. 388–459 AD), Christian pillar-hermit from Sisan, Syria *[Simeon Stylites III](/source/Simeon_Stylites_III), 5th-century pillar-hermit *[Simeon Stylites the Younger](/source/Simeon_Stylites_the_Younger) (521–597 AD), hermit and pillar-hermit from Antioch *Simeon, the name of one priest and one deacon martyred with [Abda and Abdjesus](/source/Abda_and_Abdjesus) *[Simeon the Holy Fool](/source/Simeon_the_Holy_Fool), 6th-century Christian saint and hermit *[Simeon I of Bulgaria](/source/Simeon_I_of_Bulgaria) (866–927), Bulgarian tsar *[Symeon Metaphrastes](/source/Symeon_Metaphrastes) (10th century?), Byzantine hagiographer *[Symeon the New Theologian](/source/Symeon_the_New_Theologian) (949–1022), Eastern Orthodox saint *[Simeon (abbot)](/source/Simeon_(abbot)) (994–1094), Abbot of Ely Cathedral *[Simeon Seth](/source/Simeon_Seth) (fl. 1070), Jewish Byzantine physician, writer, and grand chamberlain from Antioch *[Simeon of Mantua](/source/Simeon_of_Mantua) (died 1016), Armenian monk *[Symeon of Durham](/source/Symeon_of_Durham) (died after 1129), English chronicler and monk of Durham Priory *[Stefan Nemanja](/source/Stefan_Nemanja) (1113–1199), canonized as Saint Simeon, Serbian ruler and saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church *[Simeon of Moscow](/source/Simeon_of_Moscow), 14th-century Grand Prince of Moscow *[Simeon Uroš](/source/Simeon_Uro%C5%A1), 14th-century ruler of Epirus and Thessaly *[Simon of Trent](/source/Simon_of_Trent), 15th-century boy supposedly killed by Jews, and formerly a martyr of the Catholic Church *[Patriarch Symeon I of Constantinople](/source/Patriarch_Symeon_I_of_Constantinople), or Symeon of Trebizond, reigned three times: 1466, 1471–1475 and 1482–1486 *[Simeon Bekbulatovich](/source/Simeon_Bekbulatovich), ''de jure'' Tsar of Russia (1575–1576) *[Symeon of Polotsk](/source/Symeon_of_Polotsk) (1629–1680), Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener ===Since 1700=== :''Ordered alphabetically by last name.'' *[Simeon Barrow](/source/Simeon_Barrow) (born 2002), American football player *[Semyon Belits-Geiman](/source/Semyon_Belits-Geiman) (born 1945), former Soviet Olympic freestyle swimmer *[Simeon Brown](/source/Simeon_Brown) (born 1991), New Zealand politician *[Simeon B. Brown](/source/Simeon_B._Brown) (1812–1893), American brigadier general *[Semyon Budyonny](/source/Semyon_Budyonny) (1883–1973), Soviet military commander *[Simeon Cottle](/source/Simeon_Cottle) (born 2004), American basketball player *Simeon Coxe (usually known only as Simeon), American musician, singer and synth player of [Silver Apples](/source/Silver_Apples) *[Simeon Jocelyn](/source/Simeon_Jocelyn) (1799-1879), minister and abolitionist *[Simeon Mangiuca](/source/Simeon_Mangiuca) (1831–1890), Austro-Hungarian Romanian folklorist *[Simeon V. Marcelo](/source/Simeon_V._Marcelo) (born 1953), Filipino lawyer and former Ombudsman and Solicitor-General of the Philippines *[Simeon North](/source/Simeon_North) (1765–1852), American gunmaker *[Siméon Denis Poisson](/source/Sim%C3%A9on_Denis_Poisson) (1781–1840), French mathematician *[Simeon Rice](/source/Simeon_Rice) (born 1974), American football player *[Simeon Woods Richardson](/source/Simeon_Woods_Richardson) (born 2000), American professional baseball player *[Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha](/source/Simeon_Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) (born 1937), Tsar of Bulgaria (1943–1946), prime minister of Bulgaria (2001–2005) *[Semyon Sereda](/source/Semyon_Sereda) (1871–1933), Soviet politician *[Simeon Solomon](/source/Simeon_Solomon) (1840-1905), British painter *[Simeon Thomas](/source/Simeon_Thomas) (born 1993), American football player *[Simeon Tienpont](/source/Simeon_Tienpont) (born 1982), Dutch sailor *[Semyon Varlamov](/source/Semyon_Varlamov) (born 1988), Russian ice hockey player *[Simeon S. Willis](/source/Simeon_S._Willis) (1879–1965), American lawyer, judge, and politician from Kentucky ==See also== *[Chamoun](/source/Chamoun), also Shimun *[Semion (disambiguation)](/source/Semion) *[Semen (name)](/source/Semen_(name)) *[Shimun (disambiguation)](/source/Shimun_(disambiguation)), also Shemon *[Simeon (surname)](/source/Simeon_(surname)) *[Simon (disambiguation)](/source/Simon_(disambiguation)) *[Simone (disambiguation)](/source/Simone_(disambiguation)) *[Symon](/source/Symon) {{given name}} ==References== {{Reflist}} Category:Russian masculine given names Category:Serbian masculine given names Category:Bulgarian masculine given names Category:Hebrew masculine given names Category:Masculine given names --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Simeon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon?action=history)). 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