שקמה
Hebrew edit
Alternative forms edit
- שִׁיקְמָה (šiqmā́)
Etymology edit
According to Watkins, perhaps a derivation (or a folk-etymological alteration of a word borrowed from the same source) from the root *qāma (“to stand”), see also קָם (kam), Ge'ez ቆመ (ḳomä), Classical Syriac ܩܳܡ, Ugaritic 𐎖𐎎 (qm).[1] However, compare the cognates listed at Ancient Greek σῦκον (sûkon).
Noun edit
שִׁקְמָה • (šiqmā́) f (plural indefinite שִׁקְמִים, singular construct שִׁקְמַת־, plural construct שִׁקְמֵי־)
- sycamore fig, a tree of the species Ficus sycomorus
- Tanach, Amos 7:14, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:
- וַיַּ֤עַן עָמוֹס֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־אֲמַצְיָ֔ה לֹא־נָבִ֣יא אָנֹ֔כִי וְלֹ֥א בֶן־נָבִ֖יא אָנֹ֑כִי כִּי־בוֹקֵ֥ר אָנֹ֖כִי וּבוֹלֵ֥ס שִׁקְמִֽים׃
- Way-yáʿan ʿAmōs way-yṓmer el Ămaṣyā, lō navī ānōḵī wə-lō ven navī ānōḵī kī vōqēr ānōḵī u-vōlēs šiqmīm.
- Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: ‘I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees.
- a. 217 C.E., Mishnah, Bava Batra 5:6:
- שְׁחַמְתִּית וְנִמְצֵאת לְבָנָה, לְבָנָה וְנִמְצֵאת שְׁחַמְתִּית, עֵצִים שֶׁל זַיִת וְנִמְצְאוּ שֶׁל שִׁקְמָה, שֶׁל שִׁקְמָה וְנִמְצְאוּ שֶׁל זַיִת, יַיִן וְנִמְצָא חֹמֶץ, חֹמֶץ וְנִמְצָא יַיִן, שְׁנֵיהֶם יְכוֹלִין לַחֲזֹר בָּהֶן:
- Šəḥamtīṯ wə-nimṣēṯ ləvānā, ləvānā wə-nimṣēṯ šəḥamtīṯ, ʿēṣīm šel záyiṯ wə-nimṣəʾū šel šiqmā, šel šiqmā wə-nimṣəʾū šel záyiṯ, yáyin wə-nimṣā ḥṓmeṣ, ḥṓmeṣ wə-nimṣā yáyin, šnēhem yəḵōlīn laḥăzōr bāhen.
- (If one was sold) red wheat and found white wheat, white wheat and found red wheat, wood of an olive tree and found that of a sycamore tree, that of a sycamore tree and found that of an olive tree, wine and found vinegar, vinegar and found wine, either one can recall the sale.
- a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Ta'anit 29b:
- הַלּוֹקֵחַ אִילָן מֵחֲבֵרוֹ לָקוּץ מַגְבִּיהוֹ מִן הַקַּרְקַע טֶפַח וְקוֹצֵץ בְּסַדָּן הַשִּׁקְמָה שְׁנֵי טְפָחִים בִּבְתוּלַת הַשִּׁקְמָה שְׁלֹשָׁה טְפָחִים
- Hal-lōqḗaḥ īlān mē-ḥăvērō lāqūṣ maḡbīhō min haq-qarqaʿ ṭéfaḥ wə-qōṣēṣ, bə-saddān haš-šiqmā šnē ṭəfāḥīm, bi-vṯūlaṯ haš-šiqmā šəlōšā ṭəfāḥīm.
- One who purchases a tree from a fellow to cut it down must raise his ax a handbreadth and chop there. In the case of a sycamore trunk, two handbreadths. In the case of an untrimmed sycamore, three handbreadths.
Descendants edit
- → Aramaic:
References edit
- ^ “sycamore”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
Further reading edit
שקמה on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
