Definition of Simon the Canaanite

1. Noun. One of the twelve Apostles (first century).

Exact synonyms: Simon, Simon The Zealot, Simon Zelotes, St. Simon
Generic synonyms: Apostle, Saint

Lexicographical Neighbors of Simon The Canaanite

Simolean
Simoleans
Simoleon
Simon
Simon's sign
Simon Bolivar
Simon Kuznets
Simon Legree
Simon Marks
Simon Newcomb
Simon Peter
Simon Zelotes
Simon de Montfort
Simon says
Simon the Canaanite (current term)
Simon the Zealot
Simona
Simone
Simone Weil
Simone de Beauvoir
Simonea folliculorum
Simonetta
Simonian
Simonians
Simonides
Simonise

Literary usage of Simon the Canaanite

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"Simon the Canaanite, and still more generally with Symeon who became bishop of Jerusalem ... Simon the Canaanite, one of the Twelve Apostles (Matt. x. ..."

2. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"Lipsius conjectures that here also Simon the Canaanite was erroneously taken for Simon Peter after the triumph of the tradition that Peter had laboured in ..."

3. Dr. William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities by William Smith (1892)
"He fias been identified by some writers with Simon the Canaanite, and still more ... Simon the Canaanite is reported, on the doubtful authority of the ..."

4. Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Smith, Horatio Balch Hackett, Ezra Abbot (1872)
"Helias been identified by some writers with Simon the Canaanite, and still more ... Simon the Canaanite is re|X>rted, on the doubtful authority of the ..."

5. Encyclopaedia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1907)
"Peter laboured with Judas in (Syria and) Mesopotamia ; according to other accounts (chiefly western), Simon the Canaanite laboured along with Judas in ..."

6. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography edited by William Smith (1898)
"He has been identified by some writers with Simon the Canaanite, and still more generally with ... Simon the Canaanite, one of the twelve apostles (Matt. x. ..."

7. An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists by the Rules of by Simon Greenleaf (1847)
"1,'Simon the Canaanite,' of Matthew and Mark is introduced as * Simou called Zelotes.' Now if any difference was admitted in this place, we might expect it ..."

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