STRONGS G4807:
συκάμινος,
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.)
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