(1) A son of Jacob, the second one borne him by Leah (Gen. xxix. 33).  In conjunction with his brother, he made a savage massacre of the Hivite inhabitants of Shechem on account of the injury done by one of their number to Dinah (Gen. xxxiv. 24-31).  When one of Jacob's sons was to be kept a prisoner in Egypt as security for return of the rest, Joseph "took Simeon from among them, and bound him before their eyes" (xlii. 24): possibly, some years before, he may have been the brother who, above all the rest, was eager for the murder of Joseph.  The prediction of Simeon's future by the dying Jacob returns to the subject of the massacre, and threatens Simeon as well as Levi that they will be scattered in Israel (xlix. 5-7).
     (2) [Symeon (1)] (Luke iii. 30—A.V.).
     (3) A "righteous and devout" man to whom it had been revealed by the Holy Spirit that he should not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ (Anointed One).  Coming into the Temple when Joseph and Mary had just brought in the infant Jesus, Simeon recognised Him as the promised Messiah, expressed his willingness now to depart in peace, and made a prophetic address to Mary with respect both to her and her Child (Luke ii. 25-35).
     (4) Simon Peter (Acts xv. 14—A.V.). [Symeon (2).]
     (5) [Symeon (3)] (Acts xiii. 1—A.V.). (The Sunday School Teacher's Bible Manual, Hunter, 1894).