Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8256
שִׁקְמָה
shiqmahshik-maw'
sycamore
7 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shiqmâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8256is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8256
a sycamore (usually the tree)
The King James renders it: sycamore (fruit, tree).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
shiqmah is rendered "sycamore". It stands 7 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in 2 Chronicles, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Kings 10:27The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
1 Kings 10:27כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥ים
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's seven uses are in 2 Chronicles.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- like the sycamores3
- sycamores2
- and sycamore-fig trees their1
- and the sycamore-fig trees1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥ים3
- וְהַשִּׁקְמִים֙1
- וְ֝שִׁקְמוֹתָ֗ם1
- שִׁקְמִ֣ים1
- שִׁקְמִֽים׃1
The grammar of each form
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine plural3HRd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncfpc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Td/Ncmpa
1 Kings
one use
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥יםkashikmimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the sycamores
1 Chronicles
one use
Baal-hanan the Gederite was in charge of the olive and sycamore trees in the foothills. Joash was in charge of the stores of olive oil.
- וְהַשִּׁקְמִים֙vehashikmimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the sycamore-fig trees
2 Chronicles
two uses
The king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥יםkashikmimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the sycamores
The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- כַּשִּׁקְמִ֥יםkashikmimpreposition with the article + noun · masculine pluraltagged: like the sycamores
Psalms
one use
He killed their vines with hailstones and their sycamore-figs with sleet.
- וְ֝שִׁקְמוֹתָ֗םveshikmotamconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and sycamore-fig trees their
Isaiah
one use
“The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
- שִׁקְמִ֣יםshikmimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sycamores
Amos
one use
“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.
- שִׁקְמִֽים׃shikmimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: sycamores
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.