The word “Niger” here, the Greek niger, refers to the man Simeon as black. The Greek word Niger is from where the name Nigeria comes. We know that Nigeria consists of dark-skinned persons, as Nigeria is African in descent. Thus, Simeon was called “Niger” which means that he was called that because he was Black or African in descent.. Niger, [a] officially the Republic of the Niger, [b] is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is a unitary state bordered by Libya to the northeast, Chad to the east, Nigeria to the south, Benin and Burkina Faso to the southwest, Mali to the west, and Algeria to the northwest. It covers a land area of almost 1.27 million km 2 (490,000 sq mi), making it the largest landlocked country in West.
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Simeon Niger is a figure mentioned in the New Testament, specifically in the Book of Acts. He is noted as one of the prophets and teachers in the early Christian church at Antioch. The reference to Simeon Niger is found in Acts 13:1, which states: “Now in the church at Antioch there were prophets and teachers: Barnabas, Simeon called Niger, Lucius of Cyrene, Manaen (who had been brought up.. A man named Simeon, who was also called Niger, is one of these characters. Outside of some dedicated New Testament scholars, very few people have heard of him or know about his story. And yet his presence in the New Testament may signal some important facts about the early church of the New Testament, facts that point to some surprising implications.
