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     # 1Ki 4:7|
     * the sycamore trees.
       The Hebrew {shikmin,} Syriac {shekmo,} and Arabic {jummeez,}
       is the [sykomoros,] or sycomore, of the Greeks, so called from
       [sykos,] a fig-tree, and [moros] a mulberry- tree, because it
       resembles the latter in its leaves, and the former in its
       fruits.  "The sycamore," says Mr. Norden, "is of the height of
       a beech, and bears its fruit in a manner quite different from
       other trees:  it has them on the trunk itself, which shoots
       out little sprigs, in form of grape stalks, at the end of
       which grow the fruit close to one another, almost like a
       cluster of grapes.  The tree is always green, and bears fruit
       several times in the year, without observing any certain
       seasons; for I have seen some sycamores that have given fruit
       two months after others.  The fruit has the figure and smell
       of real figs, but is inferior to them in the taste, having a
       disgusting sweetness.  Its colour is a yellow, inclining to an
       ochre, shadowed by a flesh colour.  In the inside it resembles
       the common figs, excepting that it has a blackish colouring
       with yellow spots.  This sort of tree is pretty common in
       Egypt; the people, for the greater part, live on its fruit,
       and think themselves well regaled when they have a piece of
       bread, a couple of sycamore figs, and a pitcher of water."

     # 1Ki 20:27|