noun · neuter
sukem
Strong’sG4810
a fig
stem suk-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books1 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
σῦκον, -ου, τό
[in LXX for תְּאֵנָה]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4810 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidsoo'-kon
a fig
Fromapparently a primary word;
King Jamesfig.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Boeotian dialect τῦκον Refs 5th c.BC+, τό, fruit of the συκῆ, fig, Refs 8th c.BC+; βασίλεια σ. were a large kind, Refs 4th c.BC+; to eat figs in the heat of the day was thought to cause fever, Refs 5th c.BC+; ξηρὰ σ. Refs 5th c.BC+ 'as different as chalk from cheese', Refs 4th c.AD+; σύκῳ.. σ. οὐδὲ ἓν οὕτως ὅμοιον γέγονεν poetical cited in Refs 3rd c.BC+; σῦκα αἰτεῖν, proverbial for τρυφᾶν, Refs 5th c.BC+; σῦκον χειμῶνος ζητεῖν, of a foolish enterprise, Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 σ. Αἰγύπτιον, fruit of κερωνία, Refs 4th c.BC+
II from its shape, a large wart on the eyelids, Refs 5th c.BC+; of tumours in other places, Refs 2nd c.AD+
III pudenda muliebria, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | sukem | sukeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | sukeu | sukeiu1×σύκων |
| to, for dative | suke | sukei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
suke is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
sukeiu“figs”of, belonging togenitive plural1×
Mark 11:13… fulleim, tos gar kairos ouk ate sukeiu.… it was not the season for figs.
sukeim3×
Matthew 7:16… apo akanthaiu stafulain ē apo triboloiu sukeim?… Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
Luke 6:44… gnōskotō; ouk gar ek akanthaiu sullegalō sukeim, oude ek batau stafulan trugalō.… known by its own fruit. Indeed, figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor …
James 3:12… mu, sukas elaiain poiara ē ampelas sukeim? oute halukem glukuem poiara hudem.… grow olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce …