sumeōn

Strong’sG4826

Simeon or Simon

stem sumeōn-7 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

Συμεών, ὁ indecl., (Heb. שִׁמְעוֹן),

Simeon (so always AV; RV in Lk 2:25, 34 only), Symeon, a Heb. name for which the Gk. Σίμων, q.v., was also used;

1. the son of Jacob (Ge 29:33): Re 7:7.

2. An ancestor of our Lord: Lk 3:30

3. An aged worshipper in the Temple: Lk 2:25, 34.

4. One surnamed Niger: Ac 13:1.

5. The apostle Peter: Ac 15:14, II Pe 1:1 (R, txt., WH, txt., Σίμων).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4826 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidsoom-eh-one'

Symeon (i.e. Shimon), the name of five Israelites

Fromfrom the same as G4613;

King JamesSimeon, Simon.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

Συμεών, ὁ indecl., (Heb. שִׁמְעוֹן),
Simeon (so always AV; RV in Luk.2:25, 34 only), Symeon, a Heb. name for which the Gk. Σίμων, which see, was also used;
__1. the son of Jacob (Gen.29:33): Rev.7:7.
__2. An ancestor of our Lord: Luk.3:30
__3. An aged worshipper in the Temple: Luk.2:25, 34.
__4. One surnamed Niger: Act.13:1.
__5. The apostle Peter: Act.15:14, 2Pe.1:1 (R, txt., WH, txt., Σίμων).†
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

Simeon7×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	sumeōn5×Συμεὼν	sumeōn
object accusative	sumeōn	sumeōn
direct address vocative	sumeōn	sumeōn
of, belonging to genitive	sumeōn2×Συμεὼν	sumeōn
to, for dative	sumeōn	sumeōn

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

sumeōnstem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

7 occurrences, every one of them listed

sumeōn“Simeon”subjectnominative singular5×

Luke 2:25… anthrōpos ate en Ierousalēm ho onomem Sumeōn, kai tos anthrōpos houtos dikaios kai …… was a man in Jerusalem named Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He …

Luke 2:34kai eulogata autoin Sumeōn kai legata pros Mariam tan mētēran …Then Simeon blessed them and said to His …

Acts 13:1… kai didaskalois tos tē Barnabos kai Sumeōn tos kalorōntos Nigeros, kai Loukios tos …… there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen …

Acts 15:14“Simeon”Sumeōn exēgeta kathōs prōtem tos theos episkepteta …… told us how God first visited the …

2 Peter 1:1“Simeon”Sumeōn Petros doulos kai apostolos Iēsu Christou …Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those …

sumeōn“Simeon”of, belonging togenitive singular2×

Luke 3:30tou Sumeōn tou Ioudou tou Iōsēf tou Iōnam …the son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son …

Revelation 7:7ek fulau Sumeōn dōdeka chiliadais, ek fulau Leviou dōdeka …from the tribe of Simeon 12,000, from the tribe of Levi 12,000, from …