According to the Hebrew Bible, the Tribe of Simeon (/ˈsɪmiən/; Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹןŠīm‘ōn, "hearkening/listening/understanding/empathizing") was one of the twelve tribes of Israel.[1] The Book of Joshua locates its territory inside the boundaries of the Tribe of Judah (Joshua 19:9). It is usually counted as one of the ten lost tribes, but as its territory was south of Judah and gradually being absorbed by Judah, it cannot be considered one of the tribes of the Kingdom of Israel and would certainly not have been affected by the Assyrian sack of the kingdom.
The biblical narrative has it coming into the Land of Israel following the Exodus, while scholarly reconstructions have offered a variety of opinions as to its origins and early history. From the Book of Genesis until the Babylonian captivity, the Bible provides various details about its history, after which point it disappears from the record. A variety of extrabiblical traditional Jewish sources also provide additional material on the tribe.
Bible, the TribeofSimeon (/ˈsɪmiən/; Hebrew: שִׁמְעוֹן Šīm‘ōn, "hearkening/listening/understanding/empathizing") was one of the twelve tribesof Israel...
sons form the basis for the twelve tribesof Israel, listed in the order from oldest to youngest: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher...
It is a cognate of the name Simon The name is derived from Simeon, son of Jacob and Leah, patriarch of the TribeofSimeon. The text of Genesis (29:33)...
the tribeof Judah was identified as the first tribe. According to the narrative in the Book of Judges, the tribeof Judah invited the tribeofSimeon to...
and Solomon, mentioned only in 1 Chronicles 27:25. A family head of the tribeofSimeon, who participated in driving out the Meunim, mentioned only in 1...
means, therefore, "men of experience, having knowledge of the world". The Tribeof Issachar and the TribeofSimeon are the only tribes that have not been...
the cave of Kenaz (the one referred to in Genesis 36:11). Nahum: said to be of Elkesi (Nahum 1:1), in front of Isbergabin of the TribeofSimeon. He died...
“I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful ˹of dust˺ from the hoof-prints of ˹the horse of˺ the messenger-angel ˹Gabriel˺ then cast it ˹on the...
of Palestine, just as Simeon did when he took his sword and warred against the men of Shechem, they were found worthy to follow the tribeofSimeon at...
son of Nahor and Milcah, the nephew of Abraham, and the father of Laban and Rebecca. Bethuel was also a town in the territory of the tribeofSimeon, west...
6:17; Numbers 3:18; 1 Chronicles 6:17). The family of the Shimeites, as a branch of the tribeof Levi, is mentioned in Numbers 3:18, 21; 1 Chronicles...
the tribesof Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh, and Ephraim — all but Judah, Benjamin, and some members of the priestly...
Jacob. The episode of her violation by Shechem, son of a Canaanite or Hivite prince, and the subsequent vengeance of her brothers Simeon and Levi, commonly...
tribe of Simeon Ramoth (Issachar), a Levite city in the tribeof Issachar Ramoth (dragon), a fictional dragon in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern books...
Simon, French naturalist and the genus authority Simon TribeofSimeon, one of the twelve tribesof Israel Şimon (Hungarian: Simon), a village in Bran Commune...
the remaining families in the tribeof Judah and the tribeofSimeon, geographically the southernmost west-Jordanian tribe. These chapters belong to the...
of the territory of the TribeofSimeon. 1 Chronicles 4:29 refers to it as "Tolad." Enam, according to Joshua 15:34, was a town in the Shephelah of the...
("retribution") was the name of several people of the Old Testament. King of Israel. King of Judah Keeper of the temple-wardrobe in the reign of Josiah (2 Kings 22:14)...
(Book of Numbers 1:10; 2:18; 7:48,53). The father of Shemuel, of the TribeofSimeon (Numbers 34:20) The father of Pedahel, a prince of the Tribeof Naphtali...
names of the twelve spies were: Shammua, son of Zaccur, from the tribeof Reuben Shaphat, son of Hori, from the tribeofSimeon Caleb, son of Jephunneh...
with the text Asayahu servant of the king probably belonged to him. Asaiah (Simeonite) a prince of the tribeofSimeon who attacked and captured Gedor...
Israel, especially the tribesofSimeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali and Dan, as well as Joshua's Inheritance, a part of a section comprising Joshua...
Amos), a priest of the golden calves at Bethel (Amos 7:10-17) The father of Joshah, one of the leaders of the tribeofSimeon in the time of Hezekiah (1 Chr...
scholars. Simeon (son of Jacob), legendary founder of the TribeofSimeon (Revelation 7:7) Simeon, son of Judah, an otherwise unknown alleged ancestor of Jesus...
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