Simeon
שִׁמְעֹנִיStrong’s H8099shimoni (shim-o-ni)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shimoni is the Hebrew word usually translated “simeonite”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.”
Meaning
- Someone from the tribe of Simeon living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.33
How it's translated
- the simeonite 2
- of the simeonite 1
- for the simeonite 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 2
- Joshua 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 26:14These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
- Joshua 21:4And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
- 1 Chronicles 27:16Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: the ruler of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri: of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah:
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁמְעֹנִי shimoni · Simeon
Someone from the tribe of Simeon living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.29.33; son of: Israel (H3478) and Leah (H3812); brother of: Reuben (H7205), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074) and Dinah (H1783); half-brother of: Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); married to Canaanite_woman (H3669); father of: Jemuel (H3223), Jamin (H3226), Ohad (H0161), Jachin (H3199), Zerah (H2226L) and Shaul (H7586H) Another name of shim.on (שִׁמְעוֹן "Simeon" H8095G) § Simeonites, of Simeon "harkening" …
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.