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shiqmah: Sycamore tree

Original Word: שִׁקְמָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: shiqmah
Pronunciation: shik-MAH
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kawm')
KJV: sycamore (fruit, tree)
NASB: sycamore trees, sycamores, sycamore
Word Origin: [of uncertain derivation]

1. a sycamore (usually the tree)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
sycamore fruit, tree

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

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Definition
sycamore tree
NASB Translation
sycamore (1), sycamore trees (4), sycamores (2).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
[שִׁקְמָה] noun feminine sycomore tree (Late Hebrew id., Aramaic שִׁיקְמָא ,, LöwNo.332; hence Greek συκάηινος mulberry Lewy Fremdw.23); — plural absolute שִׁקְמִים Amos 7:14 +; suffix שִׁקְמוֺתָם Psalm 78:47; — sycomore, ficus sycomorus Linn (TristrNHB397ff. PostFlora 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 שִׁקְמִים Amos 7:14 a tender of sycomores (see [בַָלס]).

Forms and Transliterations
וְ֝שִׁקְמוֹתָ֗ם וְהַשִּׁקְמִים֙ והשקמים ושקמותם כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥ים כשקמים שִׁקְמִ֣ים שִׁקְמִֽים׃ שקמים שקמים׃ kaš·šiq·mîm kashshikMim kaššiqmîm shikMim šiq·mîm šiqmîm vehashshikMim veshikmoTam wə·haš·šiq·mîm wə·šiq·mō·w·ṯām wəhaššiqmîm wəšiqmōwṯām
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Englishman's Concordance
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

7 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 8256
7 Occurrences


kaš·šiq·mîm — 3 Occ.
šiq·mîm — 2 Occ.
wə·haš·šiq·mîm — 1 Occ.
wə·šiq·mō·w·ṯām — 1 Occ.

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