STRONGS NUMBER H8095


Word Summary
Shimon: a son of Jacob, also his tribe, also an Israelite with a foreign wife
Original Word: שִׁמְעוֹן
Transliteration: Shimon
Phonetic Spelling: (shim-one')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: a son of Jacob, also his tribe, also an Israelite with a foreign wife
Meaning: Simeon -- a son of Jacob, also his tribe, also an Israelite with a foreign wife
Strong's Concordance
Simeon

From shama'; hearing; Shimon, one of Jacob's sons, also the tribe descended from him -- Simeon.

see HEBREW shama'

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H8095. Shimon

שִׁמְעוֺן44 proper name, masculine (compare proper name שמעון‎ in Palmyrene Lzb378; meaning doubtful; Rs and others compare said to mean offspring of hyena and wolf; see HoggEBiv. 4531); —

1 second son of Jacob and Leath, Συμεωη: Genesis 29:33 (name explanation from שָׁמַע‎), 35:23; Exodus 1:2 14t. (associated especially with Levi Genesis 34:25, 30; 49:5).

2 tribal name Judges 1:3 (twice in verse); 1:17; Numbers 1:6 +; so שׁ ׳גְּנֵי1:22 7t., שׁ ׳מַטֵה1:23; 2:12; 13:5; שׁ גְנֵי ׳מַטֵּה10:19; 34:20; Joshua 19:1, 8; 21:9; 1 Chronicles 6:50.

3 post-exilic Jew with foreign wife Ezra 10:31.