Leah's second son is Simeon, whose name comes from the Hebrew shama, "He heard" (Genesis 29:33). The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan extends her words into another layer of prophecy.
She named him because it was heard before the Lord that I was hated. But then: so will be heard before Him the voice of my children when they shall be enslaved in Mizraim.
Again Leah sees Egypt. The first son's name saw God seeing. The second son's name sees God hearing. Two verbs, two senses, two moments in the same coming redemption. Reuben was eyes. Simeon is ears.
The Exodus text will later use exactly this language. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob (Exodus 2:24). The Aramaic shama of Simeon's name will become the Hebrew shama of Moses' generation. Leah is speaking the vocabulary of the Exodus in the tent of her shepherd husband.
There is something even more intimate here. Leah felt unheard by Jacob. Her husband did not listen to her the way he listened to Rachel. So when God listened to her, she named the experience and bound it to a future generation of Jews who would also feel unheard — in a brick kiln, under a taskmaster's whip. Shama, she promised them. He heard me. He will hear you.
The mother of six tribes was also a prophet. Every birth was a forecast.
The takeaway: when a Jew feels unheard by the people closest to them, the name Simeon is a reminder that Heaven is tuned to exactly that frequency.