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'''Simeon''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|ɪ|m|i|ən}}) is a given name, from the Hebrew {{lang|he|שמעון}} ([[Biblical Hebrew|Biblical]] ''Šimʿon'', [[Tiberian vocalization|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 (given name)|Simon]].

==Meaning==
The name is derived from [[Simeon (son of Jacob)|Simeon]], son of [[Jacob]] and [[Leah]], patriarch of the [[Tribe of Simeon]].  The text of  [[Book of Genesis|Genesis]] (29:33) argues that the name of ''Simeon'' refers to Leah's belief that [[Tetragrammaton|God]] had heard that she was hated by Jacob, in the sense of not being as favoured as [[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 language|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 [[Ishmaelites|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 [[Medina|Medinites]])" and ''Samˤān'' "a subdivision of [[Banu Tamim|Tamim]]".<ref>''Encyclopædia Biblica: Q to Z'', edited by Thomas Kelly Chase. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Hw_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA4531 p. 4531]</ref>

In [[classical rabbinical literature|classical rabbinical sources]], the name is sometimes interpreted as meaning "he who listens [to the words of God]" ([[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 (prince)|Zimri]]'s sexual miscegenation with a [[Midian]]ite woman, a type of relationship which rabbinical sources regard as sinful (''Jewish Encyclopedia'').

==In the Bible==
*[[Simeon (son of Jacob)]], in the Hebrew Bible
*[[Tribe of Simeon]], one of the twelve tribes of Israel
*[[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)]], figure in the New Testament who blessed Jesus and his parents in the Jerusalem temple
*[[Simeon Niger]], person in the Book of Acts

==Persons with the given name==
===Up to 1700===
:''Ordered chronologically.''
*[[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]], Nasi of the Sanhedrin in 50 AD<!-- not a bit later?-->
*[[Simeon ben Gamliel II]], Nasi of the Sanhedrin in c. 118 AD
*[[Simeon Bar Kokhba]], leader of the Bar Kokhba revolt
*[[Simeon bar Yochai]], rabbi of the Tannaim period, possibly the author of the ''Zohar''
*[[Simeon Stylites]] (c. 388–459 AD), Christian pillar-hermit from Sisan, Syria
*[[Simeon Stylites III]], 5th-century pillar-hermit
*[[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]]
*[[Simeon the Holy Fool]], 6th-century Christian saint and hermit
*[[Simeon I of Bulgaria]] (866–927), Bulgarian tsar
*[[Symeon Metaphrastes]] (10th century?), Byzantine hagiographer
*[[Symeon the New Theologian]] (949–1022), Eastern Orthodox saint
*[[Simeon (abbot)]] (994–1094), Abbot of Ely Cathedral
*[[Simeon Seth]] (fl. 1070), Jewish Byzantine physician, writer, and grand chamberlain from Antioch
*[[Simeon of Mantua]] (died 1016), Armenian monk
*[[Symeon of Durham]] (died after 1129), English chronicler and monk of Durham Priory
*[[Stefan Nemanja]] (1113–1199), canonized as Saint Simeon, Serbian ruler and saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church
*[[Simeon of Moscow]], 14th-century Grand Prince of Moscow
*[[Simeon Uroš]], 14th-century ruler of Epirus and Thessaly
*[[Simon of Trent]], 15th-century boy supposedly killed by Jews, and formerly a martyr of the Catholic Church
*[[Patriarch Symeon I of Constantinople]], or Symeon of Trebizond, reigned three times: 1466, 1471–1475 and 1482–1486
*[[Simeon Bekbulatovich]], ''de jure'' Tsar of Russia (1575–1576)
*[[Symeon of Polotsk]] (1629–1680), Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener

===Since 1700===
:''Ordered alphabetically by last name.''
*[[Simeon Barrow]] (born 2002), American football player
*[[Semyon Belits-Geiman]] (born 1945), former Soviet Olympic freestyle swimmer
*[[Semyon Budyonny]] (1883–1973), Soviet military commander
*Simeon Coxe (usually known only as Simeon), American musician, singer and synth player of [[Silver Apples]]
*[[Simeon Jocelyn]] (1799-1879), minister and abolitionist
*[[Simeon Mangiuca]] (1831–1890), Austro-Hungarian Romanian folklorist
*[[Simeon V. Marcelo]] (born 1953), Filipino lawyer and former Ombudsman and Solicitor-General of the Philippines
*[[Simeon North]] (1765–1852), American gunmaker
*[[Siméon Denis Poisson]] (1781–1840), French mathematician
*[[Simeon Rice]] (born 1974), American football player
*[[Simeon Woods Richardson]] (born 2000), American professional baseball player
*[[Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]] (born 1937), Tsar of Bulgaria (1943–1946), prime minister of Bulgaria (2001–2005)
*[[Semyon Sereda]] (1871–1933), Soviet politician
*[[Simeon Solomon]] (1840-1905), British painter
*[[Simeon Thomas]] (born 1993), American football player
*[[Simeon Tienpont]] (born 1982), Dutch sailor
*[[Semyon Varlamov]] (born 1988), Russian ice hockey player
*[[Simeon S. Willis]] (1879–1965), American lawyer, judge, and politician from Kentucky

==See also==
*[[Chamoun]], also Shimun
*[[Semen (name)]]
*[[Shimun (disambiguation)]], also Shemon
*[[Simeon (surname)]]
*[[Simon (disambiguation)]] 
*[[Simone (disambiguation)]]
*[[Symon]]

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==References==
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[[Category:Russian masculine given names]]
[[Category:Serbian masculine given names]]
[[Category:Bulgarian masculine given names]]
[[Category:Hebrew masculine given names]]
[[Category:Masculine given names]]