Bible Dictionaries
Simon

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

(Hebrew: desert)

Name of several people mentioned in the Bible.

• Descendant of Juda (1Paralipomenon 4)
• Simon, surnamed Thasi, brother of Judas Machabeus (1Machabees 2)
• Simon of the tribe of Benjamin; governor of the Temple (2Machabees 3)
• Simon who is called Peter, the Apostle (Matthew 4)
• Simon the Cananean, the Apostle (Matthew 10)
• one of the relatives of Our Lord, identified erroneously with the preceding (Matthew 13)
• Simon the leper, a resident of Bethany (Matthew 26)
• a Pharisee at whose house the penitent woman washed the feet of Jesus (Luke 7)
• Simon the Cyrenean, who helped Our Lord carry the Cross (Matthew 27)
• the father of Judas (John 6)
• Simon Magus, a magician in the time of the Apostles (Acts 8)
• Simon the tanner, a Christian of Joppe, in whose house Peter had the vision commanding him to receive the Gentiles into the faith (Acts 10)
• Simon called Niger, a Christian living at Antioch in the time of the Apostles (Acts 13)