Jacob's second son by his wife Leah. His birth (Gen. 29: 33; Gen. 35: 23; Ex. 1: 2); joins in massacring the Shechemites (Gen. 34: 25); bound in Egypt (Gen. 42: 24, 36; Gen. 43: 23); Reuben and Simeon are mine (Gen. 48: 5); Jacob's prophecy concerning (Gen. 49: 5-7); his descendants (Gen. 46: 10; Ex. 6: 15; Num. 26: 12-14; 1 Chr. 4: 24-43); tribe of Simeon, prince of Simeon (Num. 1: 6; Num. 7: 35; Num. 10: 19; Num. 34: 20 [to divide the land]); number at Sinai (Num. 1: 22-23); at Shittim (Num. 26: 14); pitched on the south, with Reuben and Gad (Num. 2: 12); Simeonite spy (Num. 13: 5); shall stand on Gerizim to bless (Deut. 27: 12); the lot of, within Judah (Josh. 19: 1-9; 1 Chr. 4: 24-33); Levitical cities of (Josh. 21: 4; 1 Chr. 6: 65); joins Judah against the Canaanites that are left (Judg. 1: 3, 17); Simeonites who joined David (1 Chr. 12: 25); still in the South in David's time (1 Chr. 4: 41-43); some had joined the northern kingdom in Asa's day (2 Chr. 15: 9); and in Josiah's (2 Chr. 34: 6); the portion of Simeon after the restoration (Ezek. 48: 24, 33; Rev. 7: 7). In N.T. Luke 3: 30, son of Judah in genealogy of the Lord; Acts 15: 14, = Simon Peter; Luke 2: 25-35, who took the Savior in his arms at the presentation in the temple; Simeon (Acts 13: 1), called Niger, a teacher at Antioch.