sycamore
shiq.mah denotes trees mentioned in agricultural work, abundance comparisons, and accounts of crop damage.
The noun consistently refers to trees: they are managed alongside olives, used as a comparison for abundance, gathered as produce, and damaged by frost. The supplied verses show differing settings rather than distinct lexical uses.
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Trees in agricultural and comparative settings · dominant
The plural noun forms occur among managed trees in 1 Chronicles 27:28, where the APB renders a man as being over “the olives and the sycamores,” and in 1 Kings 10:27 and 2 Chronicles 9:27, where such trees provide a comparison for the abundance of cedars. In Amos 7:14 the plural stands in the speaker’s work as a gatherer, while Psalm 78:47 uses the construct plural for trees struck by frost; the APB rendering of Isaiah 9:9 does not visibly reflect the term’s contribution.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB usually presents the term as “sycamores,” and once as “sycamore trees,” in the agricultural, comparative, and damage clauses. In Isaiah 9:9, the supplied APB verse does not visibly render it.