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• Menno Simons

  Menno Simons (1496–1561) was a Roman Catholic priest from Friesland in the Netherlands who became an Anabaptist leader. He united the pacifist Anabaptists, and his followers came to be known as Mennonites after him.

• Mattathias

  Mattathias (Korean Common Translation: Mattadia) was a Jewish priest who lived in Modein in the second century BC. He launched the Maccabean Revolt against the religious persecution of the Seleucid king Antiochus IV and was the father of Judas Maccabeus.

• Simeon and Anna

  Simeon and Anna are two devout Jews in Luke 2 who recognized the infant Jesus as the Messiah and bore witness to him when he was presented at the Temple in Jerusalem. Simeon left a hymn of praise and a prophecy, and Anna is called a prophetess.

• Sidon

  Sidon was a Phoenician port city on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, corresponding to present-day Saida in Lebanon. In the Old Testament it appears as a neighbor to the north of Israel, and in the New Testament it stands for Gentile territory.

• Sihon

  Sihon was an Amorite king who, near the end of the wilderness period following the Exodus, ruled the territory east of the Jordan River from his capital at Heshbon. He refused to let Israel pass through his land, fought against them, and was defeated (Numbers 21).

• Simeon (son of Jacob)

  The second son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Simeon, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. He is known for his role in the Shechem incident and for being held as a hostage in the story of Joseph.

• Simeon Called Niger

  Simeon called Niger is an early church figure named in Acts 13:1 as one of the "prophets and teachers" of the church at Antioch in Syria.

• Charles Simeon

  Charles Simeon (1759–1836) was an evangelical priest of the Church of England. He ministered at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge, for fifty-four years, trained preachers, and took part in founding the Church Missionary Society (CMS).

• Song of Simeon

  The Song of Simeon is Simeon's hymn of praise recorded in Luke 2:29–32. Also known as the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin, it has been sung in many church traditions at evening prayer and in Communion and funeral services.

• Tyre and Sidon

  Tyre and Sidon were Phoenician port cities on the eastern Mediterranean coast, in present-day Lebanon. In the Old Testament they appear as trading partners of Israel and as objects of the prophets' pronouncements of judgment; in the New Testament they appear as Gentile regions reached by the ministry of Jesus.

• Song of Simeon

  The Song of Simeon is the short hymn of praise that Simeon sang in the Temple while holding the infant Jesus, recorded in Luke 2:29-32. It is also called the Nunc Dimittis, from its opening words in Latin.

• Zion

  Zion was originally the name of the Jerusalem stronghold that David captured. The name later came to refer to the mountain on which the temple stood, to Jerusalem as a whole, and ultimately to the people of God and the heavenly city.

• Zarephath

  Zarephath was a Phoenician town on the Mediterranean coast between Tyre and Sidon. The prophet Elijah stayed there during a drought and was provided for by a widow. In the New Testament the name appears as "Sarepta."

• Daughter of Zion

  The Daughter of Zion is a poetic Old Testament expression that personifies Jerusalem and its inhabitants as a woman. It appears frequently in the Prophets and in Lamentations, and the New Testament quotes the title in its accounts of Jesus' entry into Jerusalem.

• Widow of Zarephath

  The widow of Zarephath is a widow from Zarephath in the region of Sidon who appears in 1 Kings 17. During a drought she fed the prophet Elijah, and her dead son was restored to life. Scripture does not record her name.

• Geertruydt Jansdochter

  Geertruydt Jansdochter was a sixteenth-century Dutch woman and the wife of the Anabaptist leader Menno Simons. After their marriage around 1536, she spent many years with her husband as a refugee fleeing persecution.

• Mount Hermon

  Mount Hermon is a high mountain north of the upper Jordan River, at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon range. In the Old Testament it appears as the northern boundary of the land Israel possessed, and it is well known from "the dew of Hermon" in Psalm 133.

• Ahn Byung-mu

  Ahn Byung-mu (1922–1996) was a Korean New Testament scholar and one of the leading founders of Minjung theology. He is known for interpreting the "crowd" (ochlos) in the Gospel of Mark as the minjung.

• Zimri

  Zimri was a leader of the tribe of Simeon who appears in Numbers 25. During the Baal-peor incident, he brought a Midianite woman, Cozbi, into the camp before the tabernacle of the congregation and was killed by Phinehas.

• Phoenicia

  Phoenicia was the region of port cities such as Tyre and Sidon on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, in what is now Lebanon. The New Korean Revised Version renders the name "Benige." In the Old Testament the region appears mainly under the names of its cities, Tyre and Sidon.