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From the Blue Letter Bible
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And over
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1Ki 4:7 |
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the sycomore trees
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"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 " |
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1Ki 4:7 |
And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, which provided victuals for the king and his household: each man his month in a year made provision. |
Cite This Page: (explanation of citations)
Scott, Thomas. "1 Chronicles 27:28," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/1Ch/27/28.html>.
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