SimeonorSymeon(both: sĭmˈēŏn), in the Bible.1Second son of Jacob and Leah and ancestor of the southernmost tribe of Israel. He and his tribe are seldom mentioned individually.2Devout man who blessed Jesus when He was presented in the Temple. He utteredNunc dimittis.3Simeon Niger...
Everything (except G-d) starts as "common" until G-d (or someone else at His instruction) makes it "holy". The act of changing something from "common" to "holy to the LORD" is called sanctification. Here's the very first example of sanctification found in the Bible: Then God blessed...
Divrey Hayamim Bais 9:7 Ashrei are thy anashim, and ashrei are these thy avadim, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy chochmah... Read verse in Orthodox Jewish Bible
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible 1 Chronicles 20:7 In-Context 5 In another war with the Philistines, Elhanan son of Jair killed Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite whose spear was like a ship's boom. 6 And then there was the war at Gath that featured a hul...
in Lod and Ono, and in Ge Harashim. Some of the divisions of the Levites of Judah settled in Benjamin.
11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. 12 It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. 13 But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. 14 This is why it is said...
Taken fromJohn Gill's Exposition of the Bible 1 Chronicles 9:38 In-Context 36Abdon was his firstborn son, then Zur, Kish, Baal, Ner, Nadab, 37Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth. 38Mikloth fathered Shimeam. These also lived opposite their relatives in Jerusalem with their [other] ...
1 Kings 2:40 So Shim'i set out, saddled his donkey and went to Akhish in Gat to look for his slaves; then Shim'i returned, bringing his slaves from Gat... Read verse in The Complete Jewish Bible
Markos 2:24-26 Orthodox Jewish Bible 24 And the Perushim said to him, Look, why are they engaging in what is not mutar (permissible) in the Torah on Shabbos?25 And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach says to them, Have you never read in the Tanakh what Dovid HaMelech did when he was in ...