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Strong's #8256: shaqam (pronounced shaw-kawm')

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




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׁ / ׁ

shâqâm / shiqmâh

1) sycamore tree (bearing figs)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: of uncertain derivation



Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

1 Kings 10:27: "as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycamore trees that are in the vale, for abundance."
1 Chronicles 27:28: "And over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the low plains was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over"
2 Chronicles 1:15: "as plenteous as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that are in the vale for abundance."
2 Chronicles 9:27: "as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycamore trees that are in the low plains in abundance."
Psalms 78:47: "He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycamore trees with frost."
Isaiah 9:10: "are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycamores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars."
Amos 7:14: "I was a herdsman, and a gatherer of sycamore fruit:"









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