Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tree mentioned in the New Testament, thought to be a species of mulberry.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The black mulberry, Morus nigra.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
sycamore .
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- noun A
tree , mentioned inLuke 'sGospel , and thought to be theblack mulberry .
Etymologies
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Examples
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And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Luke 17. 1999
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And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Now the sycamine trees were in the vale, 1 Kings 10: 27.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Such fruits and branches, also certain fruits of the sycamine-trees, which their fathers had devoted to sacred uses, -- they alienated into common.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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Lord said: If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would say to this sycamine-tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and planted in the sea; and it would have obeyed you.
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If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot
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Sycamine Tree is mentioned only in (Luke 17: 6) There is no reason to doubt that the sycamine is distinct from the sycamore of the same evangelist.
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(See on [1684] Mr 9: 24.) 6. sycamine -- mulberry.
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And the Lord said, If ye had faith, as a grain of mustard-seed, ye might say to this sycamine-tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Our Own Third Reader: for the Use of Schools and Families 1862
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The sycamore, or sycamine-fig, is a dark-foliaged tree, with a gnarled stem when it is old; [211] it grows either singly or in clumps, and much more resembles in appearance the English oak than the terebinth does, which has been so often compared to it.
History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857
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