Sycamore
שִׁקְמָהStrong’s H8256shiqmah (shiq-mah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shiqmah is the Hebrew word usually translated “like the sycamores”, “sycamores” and “sycamore-fig trees”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.”
Meaning
- Sycamore tree (bearing figs)
How it's translated
- like the sycamores 3
- sycamores 2
- and the sycamore-fig trees 1
- and sycamore-fig trees their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 1 Kings 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
- Amos 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Chronicles 27:28And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:
- 2 Chronicles 1:15And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the vale for abundance.
- 2 Chronicles 9:27And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.
- Psalms 78:47He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
- Isaiah 9:10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
- Amos 7:14Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
Hebrew dictionary
שִׁקְמָה shiqmah · sycamore
sycamore tree (bearing figs)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “sycamore” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SYC'AMORE, noun
[Gr. a fig.]
A species of fig-tree. The name is also given to the Acer majus, [A.pseudo-platanus, ] a species of maple.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.