Name
"Bar Sinister" is a macaronic reference to a heraldic mark, called barre sinister in French and bend sinister in English. The mark, a line from the top right to the bottom left, denotes illegitimacy and hence, the name could be translated as "Simon, the Bastard". Additionally, his name was pun on the Aramaic and Hebrew patronym bar, as in Simon bar Kokhba.
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