Genesis 29:33

33She conceived again and bore a son, and said, “Because the Lord has heard that I am hated, he has given me this son also.” And she called his name Simeon.
 Simeon sounds like the Hebrew for heard

Genesis 34:25-30

25On the third day, when they were sore, two of the sons of Jacob, bSimeon and Levi, cDinah’s brothers, took their swords and came against the city while it felt secure and killed all the males. 26They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with the sword and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house and went away. 27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister. 28They took their flocks and their herds, their donkeys, and whatever was in the city and in the field. 29All their wealth, all their little ones and their wives, all that was in the houses, they captured and plundered.

30Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, d“You have brought trouble on me eby making me stink to the inhabitants of the land, fthe Canaanites and the Perizzites. gMy numbers are few, and if they gather themselves against me and attack me, I shall be destroyed, both I and my household.”

Genesis 42:24

24Then he turned away from them and hwept. And he returned to them and spoke to them. And he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes.

Genesis 46:10

10The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

Genesis 49:5-6

5 iSimeon and Levi are brothers;
weapons jof violence are their swords.
6Let my soul come not into their council;
kO my glory, lbe not joined to their company.
For in their anger they killed men,
and in their willfulness they mhamstrung oxen.

Numbers 2:12-13

12And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the people of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, 13his company as listed being 59,300.

Numbers 26:12-14

12The sons of nSimeon according to their clans: of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites; of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites; of Jachin, the clan of the Jachinites; 13of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites; of Shaul, the clan of the Shaulites. 14These are the clans of the Simeonites, o22,200.

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