Bible Person
Meaning: that hears or obeys; that is heard · Male · 2 cross references
Simeon is the devout man in Jerusalem who receives the infant Jesus in the temple and blesses God for letting him see the Messiah. He appears at the meeting point of Israel's waiting and the arrival of salvation. First appears in Luke 2:25.1
AI summary: Simeon matters because his cross references present him as one of the clearest voices recognizing Jesus at the very beginning of the Gospel story. His blessing joins joy, fulfillment, and prophetic realism, including the coming division and sorrow tied to the Messiah. Taken together, the material presents Simeon as a faithful watcher whose long expectation is met in the child Jesus.1
Central Figure
Simeon
Meaning: that hears or obeys; that is heard
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.