Noun sykē (fig tree) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

21: 19And seeing a fig tree (sykē) by the side of the road, he went to it and found nothing at all on it but leaves. Then he said to it, "May no fruit ever come from you again!" And the fig tree (sykē) withered at once.
21: 20When the disciples saw it, they were amazed, saying, "How did the fig tree (sykē) wither at once?"
21: 21Jesus answered them, "Truly I tell you, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only will you do what has been done to the fig tree (sykē), but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be lifted up and thrown into the sea,' it will be done.
24: 32"From the fig tree (sykē) learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.

Mark

11: 13Seeing in the distance a fig tree (sykē) in leaf, he went to see whether perhaps he would find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
11: 20In the morning as they passed by, they saw the fig tree (sykē) withered away to its roots.
11: 21Then Peter remembered and said to him, "Rabbi, look! The fig tree (sykē) that you cursed has withered."
13: 28"From the fig tree (sykē) learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.

Luke

13: 6Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree (sykē) planted in his vineyard; and he came looking for fruit on it and found none.
13: 7So he said to the gardener, 'See here! For three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree (sykē), and still I find none. Cut it down! Why should it be wasting the soil?'
21: 29Then he told them a parable: "Look at the fig tree (sykē) and all the trees;

John

1: 48Nathanael asked him, "Where did you get to know me?" Jesus answered, "I saw you under the fig tree (sykē) before Philip called you."
1: 50Jesus answered, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree (sykē)? You will see greater things than these."

James

3: 12Can a fig tree (sykē), my brothers and sisters, yield olives, or a grapevine figs? No more can salt water yield fresh.

Revelation

6: 13and the stars of the sky fell to the earth as the fig tree (sykē) drops its winter fruit when shaken by a gale.

Genesis (LXX)

3: 7And the eyes of both were opened, and they perceived that they were naked, and they sewed fig tree (sykē) leaves together, and made themselves aprons to go round them.

Numbers (LXX)

20: 5And wherefore is this? Ye have brought us up out of Egypt, that we should come into this evil place; a place where there is no sowing, neither fig trees (sykē), nor vines, nor pomegranates, neither is there water to drink.

Deuteronomy (LXX)

8: 8a land of wheat and barley, wherein are vines, fig trees (sykē), pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey;

Judges (LXX)

9: 10And the trees said to the fig tree (sykē), Come, reign over us.
9: 11But the fig tree (sykē) said to them, Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruits, and go to be promoted over the trees?

1 Kings (LXX: 3 Kings)

2: 46gand he was at peace on all sides round about; and Juda and Israel dwelt safely, every one under his vine and under his fig tree (sykē), eating and drinking, and feasting, from Dan even to Bersabee, all the days of Solomon.

2 Kings (LXX: 4 Kings)

18: 31for thus says the king of the Assyrians, Gain my favour, and come forth to me, and every man shall drink of the wine of his own vine, and every man shall eat of his own fig tree (sykē), and shall drink water out of his own cistern;

Nehemiah (LXX: Esdras B)

2 (12): 13And I went forth by the gate of the valley by night, and to the mouth of the well of fig trees (sykē), and to the dung-gate: and I mourned over the wall of Jerusalem which they were destroying, and her gates were devoured with fire.

Isaiah (LXX)

34: 4 And all the powers of the heavens shall melt, and the sky shall be rolled up like a scroll: and all the stars shall fall like leaves from a vine, and as leaves fall from a fig tree (sykē).
36: 16Hearken not to Ezekias: thus says the king of the Assyrians, If ye wish to be blessed, come out to me: and ye shall eat every one of his vine and his fig trees (sykē), and ye shall drink water out of your own cisterns;

Jeremiah (LXX)

8: 13There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs on the fig trees (sykē), and the leaves have fallen off.

Hosea (LXX)

2: 14And I will utterly destroy her vines, and her fig trees (sykē), all things of which she said, These are my hire which my lovers have given me: and I will make them a testimony, and the wild beasts of the field, and the birds of the sky, and the reptiles of the earth shall devour them.
9: 10I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness, and I saw their fathers as an early watchman in a fig tree (sykē): they went in to Beel-phegor, and were shamefully estranged, and the abominable became as the beloved.

Joel (LXX)

1: 7He has ruined my vine, and utterly broken my fig trees (sykē): he has utterly searched my vine, and cast it down; he has peeled its branches.
1: 12The vine is dried up, and the fig trees (sykē) are become few; the pomegranate, and palmtree, and apple, and all the trees of the field are dried up: for the sons of men have abolished joy.
2: 22Be of good courage, ye beasts of the plain, for the plains of the wilderness have budded, for the trees have borne their fruit, the fig tree (sykē) and the vine have yielded their strength.

Micah (LXX)

4: 4And every one shall rest under his vine, and every one under his fig tree (sykē); and there shall be none to alarm them: for the mouth of the Lord Almighty has spoken these words.

Habakkuk (LXX)

3: 17For though the fig tree (sykē) shall bear no fruit, and there shall be no produce on the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall produce no food: the sheep have failed from the pasture, and there are no oxen at the cribs;

Haggai (LXX)

2: 19consider in your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig tree (sykē), and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you.

Nahum (LXX)

3: 12All thy strong-holds are as fig trees (sykē) having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

Zechariah (LXX)

3: 10In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, ye shall call together every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree (sykē).

Psalms (LXX)

104: 33And he smote their vines and their fig trees (sykē); and broke every tree of their coast.

Proverbs (LXX)

27: 18He that plants a fig tree (sykē) shall eat the fruits of it: so he that waits on his own master shall be honoured.

Song of songs (LXX)

2: 13The fig tree (sykē) has put forth its young figs, the vines put forth the tender grape, they yield a smell: arise, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove; yea, come.

1 Maccabees (LXX)

14: 12for every man sat under his vine and his fig tree (sykē), and there was none to fray them: