Genesis 29:33
And again she conceived and bore a son, and said: Because the Lord heard that I was despised, he hath given this also to me: and she called his name Simeon.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Rursumque concepit et peperit filium, et ait : Quoniam audivit me Dominus haberi contemptui, dedit etiam istum mihi ; vocavitque nomen ejus Simeon.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ συνέλαβεν πάλιν Λεία καὶ ἔτεκεν υἱὸν δεύτερον τῷ Ἰακώβ, καὶ εἶπεν ὅτι Ἤκουσεν Κύριος ὅτι μισοῦμαι, καὶ προσέδωκέν μοι καὶ τοῦτον· καὶ ἐκάλεσεν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Συμεών.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַתַּ֣הַר עוֹד֮ וַתֵּ֣לֶד בֵּן֒ וַתֹּ֗אמֶר כִּֽי שָׁמַ֤ע יְהוָה֙ כִּֽי שְׂנוּאָ֣ה אָנֹ֔כִי וַיִּתֶּן לִ֖י גַּם אֶת זֶ֑ה וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ שִׁמְעֽוֹן
Haydock's commentary
Despised, or the hated wife, Deuteronomy xxi. 15.
Simeon, "hearing or obedient."
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Gregory of Nyssa Answer to Eunomius' Second Book
In like manner before him Jacob, having taken hold of his brother’s heel, was called a supplanter, from the attitude in which he came to the birth. For those who are learned in such matters tell us that such is the interpretation of the word “Jacob,” as translated into Greek. So, too, Pharez was so named by his nurse from the incident at his birth, yet no one on that account, like Eunomius, displayed any jealousy of his assuming an authority above that of God. Moreover the mothers of the patriarchs gave them their names, as Reuben, and Simeon, and Levi, and all those who came after them. And no one started up, like our new author, as patron of Divine providence, to forbid women to usurp Divine authority by the imposition of names. …