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 in Luke's Gospel, and thought to be the black mulberry.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin sȳcamīnus, from Greek sūkamīnos, of Semitic origin; see qwm in Semitic roots.]

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From Latin sȳcamīnus, from Ancient Greek συκάμινον (sūkámīnon), from Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, "sycamore") (with assimilation to σῦκον (sûkon, "fig")).

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • Now the sycamine trees were in the vale, 1 Kings 10: 27.

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • 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

  • 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.

    The New Testament of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The common English version, corrected by the final committee of the American Bible Union.

  • 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

  • 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.

    Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

  • (See on [1684] Mr 9: 24.) 6. sycamine -- mulberry.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • 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

  • 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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