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Lexicon :: Strong's G4808 - sykē

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συκῆ
Transliteration
sykē (Key)
Pronunciation
soo-kay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 7:751,1100

Strong’s Definitions

συκῆ sykē, soo-kay'; from G4810; a fig-tree:—fig tree.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's G4808 in the following manner: fig tree (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's G4808 in the following manner: fig tree (16x).
  1. a fig tree

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
συκῆ sykē, soo-kay'; from G4810; a fig-tree:—fig tree.
STRONGS G4808:
συκῆ, συκῆς, (contracted from συκεα), from Homer down, Hebrew תְּאֵנָה, a fig-tree: Matthew 21:19-21; Matthew 24:32; Mark 11:13, 20; Mark 13:28; Luke 13:6; Luke 21:29; John 1:48 (49), 50 (51); James 3:12; Revelation 6:13. (Cf. Löw, Aram. Pflanzennamen, § 335.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Matthew
21:19; 21:20; 21:21; 24:32
Mark
11:13; 11:20; 13:28
Luke
13:6; 21:29
John
1:48
James
3:12
Revelation
6:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4808 matches the Greek συκῆ (sykē),
which occurs 29 times in 28 verses in the LXX Greek.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:7 - And the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves [fn]loin coverings.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:23 -

Then they came to the [fn]valley of [fn]Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5 - “And why have you made us come up from Egypt, to bring us into this evil place? It is not a place of [fn]grain or figs or vines or pomegranates, nor is there water to drink.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8 - a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:10 - “Then the trees said to the fig tree, ‘You come, reign over us!’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:11 - “But the fig tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my sweetness and my good produce and go to wave over the trees?’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31 - ‘Do not listen to Hezekiah, for thus says the king of Assyria, “[fn]Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:7 - Then Isaiah said, “Take a cake of figs.” And they took and laid it on the boil, and he was restored to life.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - So I went out at night by the Valley Gate in the direction of the Dragon’s Spring and on to the [fn]Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were consumed by fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:33 -

He also struck down their vines and their fig trees,

And He shattered the trees of their territory.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:18 -

He who guards the fig tree will eat its fruit,

And he who keeps watch for his master will be honored.

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:13 -

‘The fig tree has ripened its figs,

And the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance.

Arise, my darling, my beautiful one,

And come along!’”

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4 -

And all the host of heaven will rot away,

And the sky will be rolled up like a scroll;

All their hosts will also wither away

As a leaf withers from the vine,

Or as one withers from the fig tree.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - ‘Do not listen to Hezekiah,’ for thus says the king of Assyria, ‘[fn]Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree, and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:21 -

Now Isaiah had said, “Let them take up a cake of figs and apply it to the boil, that he may live.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:13 -

“I will surely gather them up,” declares Yahweh;

“There will be no grapes on the vine

And no figs on the fig tree,

And the leaf will wither;

And what I have given them will pass away.”’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:1 -

After Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken away into exile Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the officials of Judah with the craftsmen and smiths from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon, Yahweh showed me: behold, two baskets of figs set before the temple of Yahweh!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, and the other basket had very rotten figs which could not be eaten due to rottenness.
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:12 -

“And I will make desolate her vines and fig trees,

Of which she said, ‘These are my wages

Which my lovers have given me.’

And I will make them a forest,

And the beasts of the field will devour them.

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 -

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness;

I saw your fathers as the earliest fruit on the fig tree in its first season.

But they came to Baal-peor and devoted themselves to [fn]shame,

And they became as detestable as that which they loved.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 -

It has made my vine a desolation

And my fig tree [fn]splinters.

It has stripped them bare and cast them away;

Their branches have become white.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12 -

The vine dries up,

And the fig tree [fn]fails;

The pomegranate, the palm also, and the [fn]apple tree,

All the trees of the field dry up.

Indeed, rejoicing dries up

From the sons of men.

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:22 -

Do not fear, beasts of the field,

For the pastures of the wilderness have turned green,

For the tree has borne its fruit;

The fig tree and the vine have yielded [fn]their full force.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:4 -

And each of them will sit under his vine

And under his fig tree,

With no one to make them tremble,

For the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has spoken.

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12 -

All your fortifications are fig trees with [fn]ripe fruit

When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 -

Though the fig tree should not blossom

And there be no produce on the vines,

Though the yield of the olive should fail

And the fields yield no food,

Though the flock should be cut off from the fold

And there be no cattle in the stalls,

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - ‘Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree, it has not borne fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:10 - ‘In that day,’ declares Yahweh of hosts, ‘every one of you will call for his neighbor to sit under his vine and under his fig tree.’”
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