Sycamine

συκάμινος, in Arabic _sokam_, Luke xvii, 6. This is a different tree from the sycamore, mentioned Luke xix, 4. Dioscorides says that this tree is the mulberry, though he allows that some apprehend that it is the same with the sycamore. Galen has a separate article on the _sycamorus_, which he speaks of as rare, and mentions as having seen it at Alexandria in Egypt. The Greeks name the _morus_ the sycamine. Grotius says the word συκάμινος has no connection with συκέη, _the fig-tree_, but is entirely Syrian, שקמין, in Hebrew, שקמים. It should seem, indeed, to be very similar to the mulberry, as not only the Latin, but the Syriac and the Arabic, render it by _morus_; and thus Coverdale’s, the Rheim’s, and Purver’s English translations render it by the mulberry; and so it is in Bishop Wilson’s Bible.