And the sons of Simeon,.... Who was the second son of Jacob:Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar; the first of these is called Nemuel, Nu 26:12; the third, Ohad, is omitted in the places referred to, he dying without children, as may be supposed, and so was not the head of any family; and the fourth, Jachin, is called Jarib, 1Ch 4:24; and the fifth is called Zerah, in the above place, by a transposition of letters:and Shaul the son of a Canaanitish woman; whom Simeon married, very probably after the death of his first wife, by whom he had the above five sons, or she was his concubine: many Jewish writers say, this was Dinah, married to a Canaanite, but this is impossible: according to the Targum of Jonathan, this Shaul was Zimri, who did the work of the Canaanites at Shittim, Nu 25:14, which is not at all likely, the distance of time will not admit of it.
Jarchi in loc. Bereshit Rabba, sect. 80. fol. 70. 3. Shalshalet Hakabala, fol. 3.