People of the Bible
Simeon
1756 BC – · Tribe of Simeon
Family
- Father
- Jacob (Israel)
- Mother
- Leah
- Brothers and sisters
- Dinah, Issachar, Judah (patriarch), Levi (patriarch), Reuben, Zebulun
- Half-brothers and sisters
- Asher, Benjamin (patriarch), Dan, Gad, Joseph (son of Jacob), Naphtali
- Children
- Jachin, Jamin, Jemuel, Ohad, Shaul, Zerah
In the story
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length.
- Birth of Simeon · 1756 BC
- Joseph sold to Egypt · 1727 BC
- 7 years of famine · 1707 BC
- Joseph's brothers return to Egypt · 1705 BC
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
The second son of Jacob by Leah (Gen. 29:33). He was associated with Levi in the terrible act of vengeance against Hamor and the Shechemites (34:25, 26). He was detained by Joseph in Egypt as a hostage (42:24). His father, when dying, pronounced a malediction against him (49:5-7). The words in the Authorized Version (49:6), “they digged down a wall,” ought to be, as correctly rendered in the Revised Version, “they houghed an ox.”
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 40 verses
- Genesis
- 29:33, 34:25, 34:30, 35:23, 42:24, 42:36, 43:23, 46:10, 48:5, 49:5
- Exodus
- 1:2, 6:15
- Numbers
- 1:6, 1:22, 1:23, 2:12, 7:36, 10:19, 13:5, 26:12, 34:20
- Deuteronomy
- 27:12
- Joshua
- 19:1, 19:8, 19:9, 21:4, 21:9
- Judges
- 1:3, 1:17
- 1 Chronicles
- 2:1, 4:24, 4:42, 6:65, 12:25
- 2 Chronicles
- 15:9, 34:6
- Ezekiel
- 48:24, 48:25, 48:33
- Revelation
- 7:7
The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.