Word Study · Strong's H8256 · Hebrew
שִׁקְמָה
shiqmah
shik-maw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: shiqmâh
“a sycamore (usually the tree)”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a sycamore (usually the tree)
Rendered in the KJV as
sycamore (fruit, tree).
- 7occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 6 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 5inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 7 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 5
- כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥ים3
- וְהַשִּׁקְמִים֙1
- וְ֝שִׁקְמוֹתָ֗ם1
- שִׁקְמִ֣ים1
- שִׁקְמִֽים׃1
How it is rendered · 4
- like the sycamores3
- sycamores2
- and sycamore-fig trees their1
- and the sycamore-fig trees1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 4
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural3
- noun · masculine plural2
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HRd/Ncmpa · 3
- HNcmpa · 2
- HC/Ncfpc/Sp3mp · 1
- HC/Td/Ncmpa · 1
All 7, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- 2 Chronicles2 of 7 · 29%
- 1 Kings1 of 7 · 14%
- 1 Chronicles1 of 7 · 14%
- Psalms1 of 7 · 14%
- Isaiah1 of 7 · 14%
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2 Chronicles2 occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 1:15כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥יםkashikmimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluralThe king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.here: like the sycamores
- 2 Chronicles 9:27כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥יםkashikmimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluralThe king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.here: like the sycamores