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simeon
/ˈsɪmiən/
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What does simeon mean?
proper noun
- Second son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
- One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Simeon.
- A male given name from Hebrew.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Cherry County, Nebraska, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsɪmiən/
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When they had spoken, the innocence of Simeon stood up as solid as the great church above them.
And in that same rock was Saint Simeon when he received our Lord into the temple.
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While all other preparations were going on, Simeon the elder stood in his shirt-sleeves before a little looking-glass in the corner, engaged in the anti-patriarchal operation of shaving.
I submitted all this to my friends Simeon Macey and Charley Coffin, of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether insufficient.
Many writers have endeavored to prove that these towers were belfries used in connection with Christian churches; others that they were purgatorial columns or penitential heights, similar in design to the pillar of St. Simeon Stylites.