sycamine tree Summary and Overview

mentioned only in Luke 17:6. It is rendered by Luther "mulberry tree" (q.v.), which is most probably the correct rendering. It is found of two species, the black mulberry (Morus nigra) and the white mulberry (Mourea), which are common in Israel. The silk-worm feeds on their leaves. The rearing of them is one of the chief industries of the peasantry of Lebanon and of other parts of the land. It is of the order of the fig-tree. Some contend, however, that this name denotes the sycamore-fig of Luke 19:4.

is mentioned only in #Lu 17:6| There is no reason to doubt that the sycamine is distinct from the sycamore of the same evangelist. #Lu 19:4| The sycamine is the mulberry tree (Morus). Both black and white mulberry trees are common in Syria and Israel.

Luke 17:6; distinct from the SYCAMORE (Luke 19:4; Septuagint in Old Testament translated the latter however sycamine, meaning the Egyptian sycamine). The sycamine is the mulberry tree (morus) cultivated for supplying food for the silkworm caterpillars. Slow growing; but attaining large size, and stretching deep roots, so that it would require strong force to "pluck it up by the root."