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The names don't have obvious meaning in English but they did in their original languages. Simon is a Hebrew name from the torah and means "he who hears". Peter comes from Petros, the Greek translation of Cephas, the original Aramaic name Jesus gave him and means "rock". So Jesus gave a Jewish guy with a Hebrew name an Aramaic (nick)name because Jesus saw him as the rock (foundation) of his church.
Similarly Platos name means broad, which was because he was a wrestler and kept up his physique. It also spawned a joke I'm fond of.
Diogenes wanders into Platos academy and says "Broadly speaking-" To which Plato responds "Yes I was now shut up"
also couldn't the term mean "jacked" basically? like Plato= Daddy Swole essentially
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