Nave’s Topical Bible
Simeon
31 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Son of Jacob
Genesis 29:33; Genesis 35:23; Exodus 1:1-2; 1 Chronicles 2:1
- With Levi avenges upon the Shechemites the seduction of Dinah
- Jacob's denunciation of
- Goes down into Egypt to buy corn (graini); is imprisoned by Joseph, and is detained
- His sons
- Descendants of
See TRIBE OF, blow
- TRIBE OF
- Military enrollment of, at Sinai
- On the plains of Moab
- Place of, in camping and marching
- Inheritance allotted to
- Stood on Mount Gerizim to bless at the time of the Recounting of the law of Moses
- Joined with the people of Judah and Benjamin in the renewal Of the Passover
- Idolatry of
See ISRAEL
- A devout man in Jerusalem
- Blesses Jesus (when an infant) in the temple
- An ancestor of Jesus
- A disciple
- Also called NIGER
- Name given to Peter
See PETER
Bible verses about “Simeon”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 29:33And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.
- Genesis 35:23The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun:
- Exodus 1:1Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.
- Exodus 1:2Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,
- 1 Chronicles 2:1These are the sons of Israel; Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,
- Genesis 49:5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
- Genesis 49:6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
- Genesis 49:7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
- Genesis 34:30And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites: and I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.
- Genesis 42:24And he turned himself about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their eyes.
- Genesis 42:36And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.
- Genesis 43:23And he said, Peace be to you, fear not: your God, and the God of your father, hath given you treasure in your sacks: I had your money. And he brought Simeon out unto them.
- Genesis 46:10And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman.
- Exodus 6:15And the sons of Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman: these are the families of Simeon.
- 1 Chronicles 4:24The sons of Simeon were, Nemuel, and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and Shaul:
- 1 Chronicles 4:25Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.
- 1 Chronicles 4:26And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
- 1 Chronicles 4:27And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters; but his brethren had not many children, neither did all their family multiply, like to the children of Judah.
- 1 Chronicles 4:28And they dwelt at Beer–sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar–shual,
- 1 Chronicles 4:29And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,
- 1 Chronicles 4:30And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,
- 1 Chronicles 4:31And at Beth–marcaboth, and Hazar–susim, and at Beth–birei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.
- 1 Chronicles 4:32And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
- 1 Chronicles 4:33And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.
- 1 Chronicles 4:34And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
- 1 Chronicles 4:35And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,
- 1 Chronicles 4:36And Elioenai, and Jaakobah, and Jeshohaiah, and Asaiah, and Adiel, and Jesimiel, and Benaiah,
- 1 Chronicles 4:37And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;
- Numbers 26:12The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:
- Numbers 26:13Of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites: of Shaul, the family of the Shaulites.
- Numbers 26:14These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.
- Numbers 1:22Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
- Numbers 1:23Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
- Numbers 2:13And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
- Numbers 2:12And those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
- Numbers 10:18And the standard of the camp of Reuben set forward according to their armies: and over his host was Elizur the son of Shedeur.
- Numbers 10:19And over the host of the tribe of the children of Simeon was Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
- Joshua 19:1And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
- Joshua 19:2And they had in their inheritance Beer–sheba, Sheba, and Moladah,
- Joshua 19:3And Hazar–shual, and Balah, and Azem,