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Lexicon :: Strong's G4808 - sykē

Aa
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, ἡ (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.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:7 - Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:23 - When they reached the Valley of Eshkol,[fn] they cut off a branch bearing a single cluster of grapes. Two of them carried it on a pole between them, along with some pomegranates and figs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:5 - Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to this terrible place? It has no grain or figs, grapevines or pomegranates. And there is no water to drink!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:8 - a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:10 - “Next, the trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and be our king.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:11 - “But the fig tree replied, ‘Should I give up my fruit, so good and sweet, to hold sway over the trees?’

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 18:31 - “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 20:7 - Then Isaiah said, “Prepare a poultice of figs.” They did so and applied it to the boil, and he recovered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:13 - By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal[fn] Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:33

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 105:33 - he struck down their vines and fig trees and shattered the trees of their country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 27:18 - The one who guards a fig tree will eat its fruit, and whoever protects their master will be honored.

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Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxSng 2:13 - The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:4 - All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll; all the starry host will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like shriveled figs from the fig tree.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 36:16 - “Do not listen to Hezekiah. This is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then each of you will eat fruit from your own vine and fig tree and drink water from your own cistern,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:21

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 38:21 - Isaiah had said, “Prepare a poultice of figs and apply it to the boil, and he will recover.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:13 - “ ‘I will take away their harvest,

declares the LORD.

There will be no grapes on the vine. There will be no figs on the tree, and their leaves will wither. What I have given them will be taken from them.[fn]’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:1 - After Jehoiachin[fn] son of Jehoiakim king of Judah and the officials, the skilled workers and the artisans of Judah were carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed in front of the temple of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:2 - One basket had very good figs, like those that ripen early; the other basket had very bad figs, so bad they could not be eaten.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 2:12 - I will ruin her vines and her fig trees, which she said were her pay from her lovers; I will make them a thicket, and wild animals will devour them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 9:10 - “When I found Israel, it was like finding grapes in the desert; when I saw your ancestors, it was like seeing the early fruit on the fig tree. But when they came to Baal Peor, they consecrated themselves to that shameful idol and became as vile as the thing they loved.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:7 - It has laid waste my vines and ruined my fig trees. It has stripped off their bark and thrown it away, leaving their branches white.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:12 - The vine is dried up and the fig tree is withered; the pomegranate, the palm and the apple[fn] tree— all the trees of the field—are dried up. Surely the people’s joy is withered away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:22 - Do not be afraid, you wild animals, for the pastures in the wilderness are becoming green. The trees are bearing their fruit; the fig tree and the vine yield their riches.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 4:4 - Everyone will sit under their own vine and under their own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the LORD Almighty has spoken.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 3:12 - All your fortresses are like fig trees with their first ripe fruit; when they are shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:17 - Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19

Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. “ ‘From this day on I will bless you.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 3:10 - “ ‘In that day each of you will invite your neighbor to sit under your vine and fig tree,’ declares the LORD Almighty.”
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