Σίμων,
Σίμωνος (
Buttmann, 16 (14)),
ὁ (
שִׁמְעון, 'a hearing', from
שָׁמַע, 'to hear'; (there was also a Greek name
Σίμων (allied with
Σῖμος, i. e. 'flat-nosed';
Fick, Gr. Personennamen, p. 210), but cf.
B. D., under the word at the beginning;
Lightfoot on Galatians, p. 266f)),
Simon;
1. Peter, the apostle:
Matthew 17:25;
Mark 1:29f,
36;
Luke 4:38;
Luke 5:4f 10, etc.; see
Πέτρος.
2. the brother of Judas Lebbaeus (cf. under the word
Ἰούδας, 8), an apostle, who is called
Κανανίτης (so
R G, but
L T Tr WH Κανιναιος, which see),
Matthew 10:4;
Mark 3:18, and
ζηλωτής,
Luke 6:15;
Acts 1:13.
3. a brother of Jesus (cf. under the word
ἀδελφός, 1):
Matthew 13:55;
Mark 6:3.
4. a certain Cyrenian, who carried the cross of Jesus:
Matthew 27:32;
Mark 15:21;
Luke 23:26.
5. the father of Judas Iscariot land himself surnamed
Ἰσκαριώτης (see
Ἰούδας, 6)):
John 6:71;
John 12:4;
John 13:2,
26.
6. a certain Pharisee,
Luke 7:40,
43f, who appears to (some, e. g. Grotius, Schleiermacher, Holtzmann,
Schenkel, Ewald,
Keim, Hug, Bleek (see his Synoptative Erklär. on Luke, the passage cited) to) be the same as
Simon the leper, Matthew 26:6;
Mark 14:3; (but the occurrence recorded by Luke, the passage cited is now commonly thought to be distinct from that narrated by Matt. and Mark the passages cited; cf. Godet or Keil on Luke).
7. a certain tanner, living at Joppa:
Acts 9:43;
Acts 10:6,
17,
32.
8. Simon (`Magus'), the Samaritan sorcerer:
Acts 8:9,
13,
18,
24. The various ecclesiastical stories about him, as well as the opinions and conjectures of modern theologians, are reviewed at length by
Lipsius in
Schenkel v., pp. 301-321; (cf. W. Möller in
Herzog edition 2, vol. xiv., pp. 246ff; Schaff, Hist. of the Chris. Church, vol. ii (1883) § 121).
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