“And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.”
She conceived again, and when she gave birth to a son she said: because the LORD heard that I am not loved, he gave me this one too. So she named him Simeon. Simeon means one who hears. The second son is named from the divine attribute of hearing — the same attribute that named Ishmael (God hears) in Genesis 16:11. The theology of the naming is consistent: God hears what is not heard by others. The application: the second child named for God's attentiveness is the testimony that the first naming was not incidental. Leah is building a theology of divine attention from her experience of human neglect.
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