Lexical Summary sykaminos: the mulberry tree, the sycamine Original Word: συκάμινοςTransliteration: sykaminos Phonetic Spelling: (soo-kam'-ee-nos) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: the mulberry tree, the sycamine Meaning: the mulberry tree, the sycamine Strong's Concordance sycamine tree, mulberry treeOf Hebrew origin (shaqam) in imitation of sukomoraia; a sycamore-fig tree -- sycamine tree. see GREEK sukomoraia see HEBREW shaqam Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4807: συκάμινοςσυκάμινος, συκαμινου, ἡ, Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (of which only the plural שִׁקְמִים is found in the O. T., 1 Kings 10:27; Isaiah 9:10; Amos 7:14; once שִׁקְמות), a sycamine, a tree having the form and foliage of the mulberry, but fruit resembling the fig (equivalent to συκομορέα, which see (but Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, 2nd edition, p. 396f; BB. DD., etc., regard the sycamine as the black-mulberry tree, and the sycomore as the fig-mulberry)): Luke 17:6. (Often in Theophrastus; Strabo 17, p. 823; Diodorus 1, 34; Dioscorid. 1, 22.) (Cf. Vanicek, Fremdwörter, p. 54; especially Löw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, § 332, cf. § 338; BB. DD., as above; 'Bible Educator' 4:343; Pickering, Chron. Hist. of Plants, pp. 106, 258.) |
    |