שִׁקְמָהshiqmâh
sycomore tree (Amos 7:14; Psalms 78:47; Isaiah 9:9; 1 Kings 10:27; 2 Chronicles 1:15)
Pronunciation: shik-maw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8256
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- 1 Kings 10:27 The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.
- 1 Chronicles 27:28 Baal-hanan from Geder was in charge of the king’s olive groves and sycamore-fig trees in the foothills of Judah. Joash was responsible for the supplies of olive oil.
- 2 Chronicles 1:15 The king made silver and gold as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 9:27 The king made silver as plentiful in Jerusalem as stone. And valuable cedar timber was as common as the sycamore-fig trees that grow in the foothills of Judah.
- Psalms 78:47 He destroyed their grapevines with hail and shattered their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- Isaiah 9:10 They said, “We will replace the broken bricks of our ruins with finished stone, and replant the felled sycamore-fig trees with cedars.”
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).