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Sycamine
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary
or συκαμινος , in Arabic sokam, Luke 17:6 . This is a different tree from the sycamore, mentioned Luke 19:4 . Dioscorides says that this tree is the mulberry, though he allows that some apprehend that it is the same with the sycamore. Galen has a separate article on the sycamorus, which he speaks of as rare, and mentions as having seen it at Alexandria in Egypt. The Greeks name the morus the sycamine. Grotius says the word συκαμινος has no connection with συκεη , the fig-tree, but is entirely Syrian, שקמין , in Hebrew, שקמים . It should seem, indeed, to be very similar to the mulberry, as not only the Latin, but the Syriac and the Arabic, render it by morus; and thus Coverdale's, the Rheim's and Purver's English translations render it by the mulberry; and so it is in Bishop Wilson's Bible.
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Watson, Richard. Entry for 'Sycamine'. Richard Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/wtd/s/sycamine.html. 1831-2.
