Word.ws English Dictionary

Symeon

Syllables: Sy·me·on/ˈsɪ.mi.ən/

Symeon proper noun: second son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.

Proper noun

Symeon

  1. Second son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
  2. One of the Israelite tribes, descended from Symeon.
  3. A male given name from Hebrew.
  4. A surname.

Forms of Symeon

alternative formSimeon

Origin of Symeon

Borrowed from Latin Symeon, from Ancient Greek Σῠμεών (Sŭmeṓn), from Biblical Hebrew שִׁמְעוֹן (šimʿôn, “hearkening, listening”), originally referring to Simeon, a son of Jacob. Doublet of Simon.

Words that rhyme with Symeon

Questions about Symeon

What does Symeon mean?
Symeon means second son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
What part of speech is Symeon?
Symeon is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Symeon?
Symeon is pronounced /ˈsɪ.mi.ən/.

Words near Symeon in the dictionary

  1. symbols
  2. symbrachydactyly
  3. Symbrock
  4. symclosene
  5. Syme
  6. Symeon
  7. Symes
  8. symesite
  9. symetine
  10. symetrical
  11. Symi

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Symeon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Symeon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/symeon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.