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Strong's Greek: 4807. συκάμινος (sukaminos) -- the mulberry tree, the sycamine
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title="4808">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Strong's Concordance</div><div align="left"><span class="toptitle2">sukaminos: the mulberry tree, the sycamine</span></div><span class="tophdg">Original Word: </span><span class="greek">συκάμινος, ου, ἡ</span><br><span class="tophdg">Part of Speech: </span>Noun, Feminine<br><span class="tophdg">Transliteration: </span>sukaminos<br><span class="tophdg">Phonetic Spelling: </span>(soo-kam'-ee-nos)<br><span class="tophdg">Short Definition: </span>a sycamore tree<br><span class="tophdg">Definition: </span>a sycamore tree, black mulberry tree.<div class="vheading2">HELPS Word-studies</div><p class="discovery"><b>4807</b> <i>sykáminos</i> – a sycamine tree, most likely the <i>black</i> mulberry tree, known for its <i>medicinal</i> properties – hence, distinguished by Luke the <i>physician</i> (see <i>WP</i> at Lk 17:6). </p><p class="discovery">[<a href="/greek/4807.htm">4807</a> (<i>sykáminos</i>) then seems to be a distinct species from <a href="/greek/4809.htm">4809</a> (<i>sykomōraía</i>).] <tab></p><p class="discovery"><a href="/greek/4807.htm">4807</a> <i>/sykáminos</i> ("mulberry tree") is deciduous, yields black berries, and grows about six meters high (roughly 20 feet).</p><p class="discovery">[<i>Neither</i> the <a href="/greek/4809.htm">4809</a>/sykomōraía nor the <a href="/greek/4807.htm">4807</a>/sykáminos are the same as the <i>English</i> "sycamore tree."]</p><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/discovery.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Thayer's Greek Lexicon</div><span class="maintitle">STRONGS NT 4807: συκάμινος</span><br><br><span class="arttitle"><span class="grktitle">συκάμινος</span></span>, <span class="greek2">συκαμινου</span>, <span class="greek2">ἡ</span>, Hebrew <span class="hebrew">שִׁקְמָה</span> (of which only the plural <span class="hebrew">שִׁקְמִים</span> is found in the O. T., <a href="/interlinear/1_kings/10-27.htm">1 Kings 10:27</a>; <a href="/interlinear/isaiah/9-10.htm">Isaiah 9:10</a>; <a href="/interlinear/amos/7-14.htm">Amos 7:14</a>; once <span class="hebrew">שִׁקְמות</span>), <span class="accented">a sycamine,</span> a tree having the form and foliage of the mulberry, but fruit resembling the fig (equivalent to <span class="greek2">συκομορέα</span>, which see (but Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, 2nd edition, p. 396f; <span class="abbreviation">BB. DD.</span>, etc., regard the sycamine as the black-mulberry tree, and the sycomore as the fig-mulberry)): <a href="/interlinear/luke/17-6.htm">Luke 17:6</a>. (Often in <span class="abbreviation">Theophrastus</span>; <span class="abbreviation">Strabo</span> 17, p. 823; <span class="abbreviation">Diodorus</span> 1, 34; <span class="abbreviation">Dioscorid.</span> 1, 22.) (Cf. <span class="abbreviation">Vanicek</span>, Fremdwörter, p. 54; especially Löw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, § 332, cf. § 338; <span class="abbreviation">BB. DD.</span>, as above; '<span class="abbreviation">Bible Educator</span>' 4:343; Pickering, Chron. Hist. of Plants, pp. 106, 258.)<FOOTNOTE:1> <br><br><iframe width="100%" height="85" scrolling=no src="/bsoft.htm" frameborder=0 cellpadding=0></iframe><div class="vheading2">Strong's Exhaustive Concordance</div>sycamine tree, mulberry tree<p>Of Hebrew origin (<a href="/hebrew/8256.htm">shaqam</a>) in imitation of <a href="/greek/4809.htm">sukomoraia</a>; a sycamore-fig tree -- sycamine tree. <p>see GREEK <a href="/greek/4809.htm">sukomoraia</a> <p>see HEBREW <a href="/hebrew/8256.htm">shaqam</a> <div class="vheading2">Forms and Transliterations</div>συκαμίνους συκαμινω συκαμίνω συκαμίνῳ συκαμίνων sukamino sukaminō sykamino sykaminō sykamínoi sykamínōi<div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/interlinear/matthew/1-1.htm">Interlinear Greek</a> • <a href="/interlinear/genesis/1-1.htm">Interlinear Hebrew</a> • <a href="/strongs.htm">Strong's Numbers</a> • <a href="/englishmans_greek.htm">Englishman's Greek Concordance</a> • <a href="/englishmans_hebrew.htm">Englishman's Hebrew Concordance</a> • <a href="/texts/matthew/1-1.htm">Parallel Texts</a></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheading">Englishman's Concordance</div><b><a href="/greek/4807.htm">Strong's Greek 4807</a><br><a href="/greek/strongs_4807.htm">1 Occurrence</a></b><br><br><a href="/greek/sukamino__4807.htm">συκαμίνῳ — 1 Occ.</a><br><br><b><a href="/text/luke/17-6.htm" title="Biblos Lexicon">Luke 17:6</a> <a href="/abbrev.htm" title="Adjective - Dative Masculine Singular">Adj-DMS</a></b><br><a href="/interlinear/luke/17.htm" title="Greek">GRK:</a> <span class="greek3">ἂν τῇ <b>συκαμίνῳ</b> ταύτῃ Ἐκριζώθητι</span><br><a href="http://biblehub.com/nas/luke/17.htm" title="New American Standard Bible">NAS:</a> to this <span class="itali">mulberry tree,</span> 'Be uprooted<br><a href="/kjvs/luke/17.htm" title="King James Bible with Strong's">KJV:</a> unto this <span class="itali">sycamine</span> tree, Be thou plucked up by the root,<br><a href="/interlinear/luke/17-6.htm" title="Biblos Interlinear Bible">INT:</a> anyhow to the <span class="itali">mulberry tree</span> this Be you rooted up<p><b><a href="/greek/strongs_4807.htm">1 Occurrence</a></b><br><br></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/greek/4806.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="4806"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="4806" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/greek/4808.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="4808"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="4808" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/strongsleft.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="/strongsright.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>