Lectionary Calendar
Saturday, November 23rd, 2024
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Luke 17:6; distinct from the SYCAMORE (Luke 19:4; Septuagint in Old Testament translated the latter however sycamine , meaning the Egyptian sycamine ). The sycamine is the mulberry tree (morus ) cultivated for supplying food for the silkworm caterpillars. Slow growing; but attaining large size, and stretching deep roots, so that it would require strong force to "pluck it up by the root."
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Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Sycamine Tree'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/s/sycamine-tree.html. 1949.
Fausset, Andrew R. Entry for 'Sycamine Tree'. Fausset's Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/fbd/s/sycamine-tree.html. 1949.
