συκάμινος, συκαμινου, ἡ, Hebrew ωΔΡχΐξΘδ (of which only the plural ωΔΡχΐξΔιν is found in the O. T., 1Ki_10:27; Isa_9:10; Amo_7:14; once ωΔΡχΐξεϊ), a sycamine, a tree having the form and foliage of the mulberry, but fruit resembling the fig (equivalent to συκομορέα, which see (but Tristram, Nat. Hist. of the Bible, 2nd edition, p. 396f; BB. DD., etc., regard the sycamine as the black-mulberry tree, and the sycomore as the fig-mulberry)): Luk_17:6. (Often in Theophrastus; Strabo 17, p. 823; Diodorus 1, 34; Dioscorid. 1, 22.) (Cf. Vanicek, Fremdwörter, p. 54; especially Löw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, § 332, cf. § 338; BB. DD., as above; 'Bible Educator' 4:343; Pickering, Chron. Hist. of Plants, pp. 106, 258.)

συκάμινος sykaminos 1x a sycamore tree, mulberry tree, i.q. συκομοραία , q.v., Luk_17:6

συκάμινος , -ου , ἡ , [in LXX for H8256 ( 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; v. ICC , in l ; DB , iv, 634.) †

συκάμινος [page 595] a mulberry tree ( Luk_17:6 ) : cf. P Cairo Zen I. 59083 .8 (B.C. 257) συκάμινος C, where C is perhaps = ἡμιωβέλιον , P Leid C iv. 14 (B.C. 160 159) (= UPZ i. p. 403) ζύτο [[ν ]] συκαμίνου (δραχμὰς ) ς̄ , P Grenf II. 16 .4 (B.C. 137) πεπρακέναι τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν αὐτοῖς συκάμινον , P Tebt II. 343 .86 (ii/A.D.) συ̣κ̣α̣μινος ᾱ φοι (νικῶνος ) ᾱ , BGU II. 492 .7 (A.D. 148 9) π ]ροκειμένῃ συκαμείνῳ κλάδο [. . ., and P Lond 121 .223 (iii/A.D.) (= I. p. 91) γάλα συκαμίνου . See also the form συκαμίνεον in P Flor l. 50 .32, .66 (A.D. 268), and the compd, in P Hib I. 70 ( a ) .5 (B.C. 229 8) ἀ̣ρ̣ο̣(υρῶν ) κ̣̄ συκαμινοακανθίνου λ̣ι̣τοῦ , 20 arourae of smooth (?) mulberry acanthus land (Edd.). The adj. συκαμίνινος is found in P Cairo Zen II. 59188 .6 (B.C. 255) περὶ τοῦ πλοίου τοῦ συκαμινίνου συντάξαι , and P Flor II. 247 .22 (A.D. 256) τὸ ξύλον τὸ συκαμείνινον . See also s.v. συκομορέα .

συκάμινος "the mulberry-tree", Lat. morus, Theophr. = συκόμορος, NTest.

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)