King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8256
Transliteration: shiqmah
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kawm')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: sycamore tree
Meaning: sycamore tree
Word Summary
shiqmah: sycamore tree
Original Word: שִׁקְמָהTransliteration: shiqmah
Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-kawm')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: sycamore tree
Meaning: sycamore tree
Strong's Concordance
sycamore fruit, tree Or (feminine) shiqmah {shik-maw'}; of uncertain derivation; a sycamore (usually the tree) -- sycamore (fruit, tree).
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8256. shiqmah
[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=2 Chronicles 1:15=9:27, 1 Chronicles 27:28; as property Psalm 78:47 ("" גֶּפֶן); שִׁקְמִים בּוֺלֵס Amos 7:14 a tender of sycomores (see [בַָלס]).