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# שִׁקְמָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8256

**sycomore tree** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

sycomore tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8256/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׁקְמָה: n.f. sycomore tree [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8256/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. sycomore tree (NH id., Aramaic שִׁיקְמָא, ܫܶܩܡܳܐ, LöwNo.332; hence Gk. συκάμινος, mulberry LewyFremdw.23);—pl. abs. שִׁקְמִים Am 7:14 +; sf. שִׁקְמוֹתָם ψ 78:47;—sycomore, ficus sycomorus Linn (TristrNHB 397ff. PostFlora of Syria 730. Hast DB s.v.) a common tree Is 9:9, growing in the Shephela 1 K 10:27 = 2 Ch 1:15 = 9:27;1 Ch 27:28; as property ψ 78:47 (‖ גֶּפֶן); בּוֹלֵס שִׁקְמִים Am 7:14 a tender of sycomores (v. \[בָּלַם\]).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sycamores (6); of sycamores (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 9:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.9/#tree)

לְבֵנִ֥ים נָפָ֖לוּ וְגָזִ֣ית נִבְנֶ֑ה שִׁקְמִ֣ים גֻּדָּ֔עוּ וַאֲרָזִ֖ים נַחֲלִֽיף׃

*Word for word:* bricks they.have.fallen and hewn.\[stone\] we.will.rebuild sycamores they.have.been.cut.down and cedars we.will.substitute

*JPS 1917:* 'The bricks are fallen, but we will build with hewn stones; the sycamores are cut down, but cedars will we put in their place.'

[Psalms 78:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.78.47/#tree)

יַהֲרֹ֣ג בַּבָּרָ֣ד גַּפְנָ֑ם וְ֝שִׁקְמוֹתָ֗ם בַּֽחֲנָמַֽל׃

*Word for word:* he.killed with (the) hail vine\[s\] their and sycamores their with a.flood

*JPS 1917:* He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore-trees with frost.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8256.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8256/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).