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Sycamore

שִׁקְמָהStrong’s H8256

shiqmah (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.”
1 Kings 10:27 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.