Greek proper noun (a person) · G4826
Συμεών
Symeonsoom-eh-one'
the son of Jacob; An ancestor of our Lord; An aged worshipper in the Temple; One surnamed Niger; The apostle Peter
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Symeṓn
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4826is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 5meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4826
Symeon (i.e. Shimon), the name of five Israelites
The King James renders it: Simeon, Simon.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Symeon is rendered "the son of Jacob; An ancestor of our Lord; An aged worshipper in the Temple; One surnamed Niger; The apostle Peter". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists five meanings for it, beginning with "the son of Jacob".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 2:25Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
The first use
Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
Luke 2:25Συμεὼν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's seven uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The word carries five meanings: the son of Jacob, and An ancestor of our Lord, and An aged worshipper in the Temple, and One surnamed Niger, and The apostle Peter.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| the son of JacobGen.29:33): Rev.7:7. | Tagged as
| WhereGenesis 29:33Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said… |
| An ancestor of our LordLuk.3:30 | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereLuke 3:30the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim, |
| An aged worshipper in the TempleLuk.2:25, 34. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 2:25Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout… |
| One surnamed NigerAct.13:1. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 13:1Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger… |
| The apostle PeterAct.15:14, 2Pe.1:1 (R, txt., WH, txt., Σίμων).† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereActs 15:14Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- Συμεὼν7
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular5N-NSM-P
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular2N-GSM-P
Luke
three uses
Now there was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.
- Συμεὼνsumeonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Simeon
Then Simeon blessed them and said to His mother Mary: “Behold, this Child is appointed to cause the rise and fall of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against,
- Συμεὼνsumeonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Simeon
the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,
- Συμεὼνsumeonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of Simeon
Acts
two uses
Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch), and Saul.
- Συμεὼνsumeonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Simeon
Simon has told us how God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people to be His own.
- Συμεὼνsumeonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Simeon
2 Peter
one use
Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious as ours:
- Συμεὼνsumeonnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Simon
Revelation
one use
from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
- Συμεὼνsumeonnoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of Simeon
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.