Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #8256 - שִׁקְמָה shiqmah (sycamore tree)

Original Word:	שִׁקְמָה
Transliteration:	shiqmah
Definition:	sycamore tree
Part of Speech:	Noun Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(shaw-kawm')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

sycamore fruit, tree

Or (feminine) shiqmah {shik-maw'}; of uncertain derivation; a sycamore (usually the tree) -- sycamore (fruit, tree).

Englishman's Concordance

1) sycamore tree (bearing figs)
Part of Speech: noun feminine
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: of uncertain derivation
Same Word by TWOT Number: 2455

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שִׁקְמָה] noun femininesycomore tree (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic שִׁיקְמָא ,

, Löw^No.332; hence Greek συκάηινοςmulberry Lewy^Fremdw.23); — plural absolute שִׁקְמִיםAmos 7:14 +; suffix שִׁקְמוֺתָםPsalm 78:47; — sycomore, ficus sycomorus Linn (Tristr^NHB397ff. Post^{Flora of Syria 730}; Hast. DB under the word) a common tree Isaiah 9:9, growing in the Shephela 1 Kings 10:27=2Chronicles 1:15=2 Chronicles 9:27,1 Chronicles 27:28; as property Psalm 78:47 ("" גֶּפֶן); בּוֺלֵס שִׁקְמִיםAmos 7:14a tender of sycomores (see [בַָלס]).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 8256. שִׁקְמִים (shiqmah) — 7 Occurrences

1 Kings 10:27
HEB:הָאֲרָזִ֗ים נָתַ֛ן כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥ים אֲשֶׁר־ בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖ה
NAS: as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
KJV: made he [to be] as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale,
INT: cedars made sycamore that lowland

1 Chronicles 27:28
HEB:וְעַל־ הַזֵּיתִ֤ים וְהַשִּׁקְמִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֔ה
NAS: of the olive and sycamore trees in the Shephelah;
KJV: And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that [were] in the low plains
INT: had charge of the olive and sycamore it Shephelah

2 Chronicles 1:15
HEB:הָאֲרָזִ֗ים נָתַ֛ן כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥ים אֲשֶׁר־ בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖ה
NAS: as plentiful as sycamores in the lowland.
KJV: made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale
INT: cedars made sycamores it lowland

2 Chronicles 9:27
HEB:הָאֲרָזִ֗ים נָתַ֛ן כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥ים אֲשֶׁר־ בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֖ה
NAS: as plentiful as sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
KJV: made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the low plains
INT: cedars made sycamore that lowland

Psalm 78:47
HEB:בַּבָּרָ֣ד גַּפְנָ֑ם וְ֝שִׁקְמוֹתָ֗ם בַּֽחֲנָמַֽל׃
NAS: with hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost.
KJV: with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.
INT: hailstones their vines and their sycamore frost

Isaiah 9:10
HEB:וְגָזִ֣ית נִבְנֶ֑ה שִׁקְמִ֣ים גֻּדָּ֔עוּ וַאֲרָזִ֖ים
NAS: with smooth stones; The sycamores have been cut down,
KJV: with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down,
INT: smooth will rebuild the sycamores have been cut cedars

Amos 7:14
HEB:אָנֹ֖כִי וּבוֹלֵ֥ס שִׁקְמִֽים׃
NAS: and a grower of sycamore figs.
KJV: and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
INT: and a grower of sycamore

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