Simon (given name)

Simon
St. Simon the Zealot
GenderMale
Name dayJanuary 5 (Hungary)
May 9 (Eastern Orthodoxy)
October 28 (France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Spain)
Origin
Word/nameThe Bible
Meaning"listen"

Simon is a given name, from Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן Šimʻôn, meaning "listen" or "hearing". It is also a classical Greek name, deriving from an adjective meaning "flat-nosed".: 232  In the first century AD, Simon was the most popular male name for Jews in Roman Judea.

The Hebrew name is Hellenised as Symeon (Ancient Greek: Συμεών) in the Septuagint, and in the New Testament as both Symeon and, according to most authorities, Simon.: 58  Simon is one Latinised version of the name, the others being Symeon or Simeon.

In other languages

Notable people with the given name Simon or Simón

For a comprehensive list see All pages with titles beginning with Simon.

Ancient

Medieval

Renaissance to modern

Biblical characters

Fictional characters

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Smith, William, Dr. (1901) "Entry for 'Simon'". Smith's Bible Dictionary.
  2. ↑ Barnett, Paul (2002). Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity: A History of New Testament Times. Intervarsity Press. ISBN 978-0-8308-2699-5.
  3. 1 2 Σίμων. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project
  4. ↑ Ilan, Tal (2002) Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity: Palestine 330 BCE–200 CE (Texts & Studies in Ancient Judaism, 91), Coronet Books, pp. 56–57; Hachili, R. "Hebrew Names, Personal Names, Family Names and Nicknames of Jews in the Second Temple Period," in J. W. van Henten and A. Brenner, eds., Families and Family Relations as Represented in Early Judaism and Early Christianity (STAR 2; Leiden:Deo, 2000), pp. 113–115; apud Bauckham, Richard (2017). Jesus and the Eyewitnesses (2nd ed.). Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. pp. 68–72. ISBN 978-0-8028-7431-3. Quote (p. 71): 15.6% of men bore one of the two most popular male names, Simon and Joseph; (p. 72): for the Gospels and Acts... 18.2% of men bore one of the two most popular male names, Simon and Joseph.
  5. 1 2 Greek word #4826 in Strong's Concordance
  6. ↑ Lachs, Samuel (1987). A Rabbinic Commentary on the New Testament: The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-88125-089-3.
  7. ↑ Harper, Douglas. "Simon". Online Etymology Dictionary.
  8. ↑ σιμός. Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; A Greek–English Lexicon at the Perseus Project.
  9. ↑ Walter Burkert, Greek Religion, Harvard University Press, 1985, p. 182.
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