Appendix:Gikun Usage in Meiji Version of Japanese Bible/無花果樹

Japanese

Kanji in this term
無	花	果	樹
いちじく
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jukujikun

Etymology

From 無花果 (ichijiku, “fig”), applying the 義訓 (gikun, “meaning reading”) to a Chinese-derived compound of 無花果 (ichijiku, “fig”) +‎ 樹 (ki, “tree”).

Noun

無花果樹(いちじく) • (ichijiku) 

1. a fig tree
   • Book of Genesis 3:7 (page 3)

     是(こゝ)において彼(かれ)等(ら)の目(め)倶(とも)に開(ひらけ)て彼(かれ)等(ら)其(その)裸體(はだか)なるを知(し)り乃(すなは)ち無花果樹(いちゞく)の葉(は)を綴(つゞり)て裳(も)を作(つく)れり

     Koko ni oite karera no me tomo ni hirakete karera sono hadaka naru o shiri sunawachi ichijiku no ha o tsuzurite mo o tsukureri

     And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.