BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
How to read this: there is rarely one magic “true meaning” hidden behind an English word. A lexicon records a word’s semantic range. The intended meaning is narrowed by grammar, sentence, author, historical usage and context.
GREEK · G4807
sukaminos — mulberry tree
συκάμινος, -ου, ἡ [in LXX for שִׁקְמָה (pl.) ;] the mulberry tree (Lat. morus; cf. μόρον, 1Ma.6:34 *), the sycamine: Luk.17:6. (In LXX, σ. appears to represent the συκόμορος (see: συκομορέα), but St. Luke distinguishes between the two; see ICC, in l; DB, iv, 634.) † (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G4809
sukomōraia — sycamore tree
συκο-μορέα (Rec. -μωραία, L, -μωρέα), -ας, ἡ, more commonly (so Aq., Sm., Psa.78:47, Isa.9:10) συκόμορος (σῦκον + μόρον, the black mulberry), a fig-mulberry, a sycamore: Luk.19:4 (cf. συκάμινος).† (AS)
1 tagged verse occurrence · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9245
sukaminon — fruit of sycamine trees
the fruit of the συκάμινος, a mulberry , Lat. morum, (Aristotle Philosopher) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Heb. bakah, “to weep;” rendered “Baca” (R.V., “weeping”) in Ps. 84:6. The plural form of the Hebrew bekaim is rendered “mulberry trees” in 2 Sam. 5:23, 24 and 1 Chr. 14:14, 15. The tree here alluded to was probably the aspen or trembling poplar. “We know with certainty that the black poplar, the aspen, and the Lombardy poplar grew in Palestine. The aspen, whose long leaf-stalks cause the leaves to tremble with every breath of wind, unites with the willow and the oak to overshadow the watercourses of the Lebanon, and with the oleander and the acacia to adorn the ravines of Southern Palestine” (Kitto). By “the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees” we are to understand a rustling among the trees like the marching of an army. This was the signal that the Lord himself would lead forth David’s army to victory. (See SYCAMINE.)
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
