shikma · sycamore

What it means

shikma (שִׁקְמָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “sycamore”.

A tree of the fig family, common in the lowlands of Israel, with cheap wood and poor fruit.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A fig-like tree of ordinary wood.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• sycamores ×6
• sycamore figs ×1

Where it appears

• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Amos×1

• 1 Kings 10:27

  And the king made silver in Jerusalem like stones, and cedars he made like the sycamores that are in the Shephelah, in abundance.

• 1 Chronicles 27:28

  over the olive trees and the sycamores that were in the Shephelah was Baal-hanan the Gederite; and over the stores of oil was Joash;

• 2 Chronicles 1:15

  The king made the silver and the gold in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedars he made like the sycamores that are in the Shephelah, in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 9:27

  The king made the silver in Jerusalem like stones, and the cedars he made like the sycamores that are in the Shephelah, in abundance.

• Psalms 78:47

  He killed with hail their vine, and their sycamores with frost.

• Isaiah 9:10

  “Bricks have fallen, but with hewn stone we will build; sycamores have been cut down, but cedars we will put in their place.”

• Amos 7:14

  And Amos answered and said to Amaziah, “I am not a prophet, and I am not a prophet's son; but I am a herdsman and a dresser of sycamore figs.