Noun sykon (fig) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint)


Matthew

7: 16You will know them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs (sykon) from thistles?

Mark

11: 13Seeing in the distance a fig tree 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 (sykon).

Luke

6: 44for each tree is known by its own fruit. Figs (sykon) are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

James

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

Numbers (LXX)

13: 23And they came to the valley of the cluster and surveyed it; and they cut down thence a bough and one cluster of grapes upon it, and bore it on staves, and they took of the pomegranates and the figs (sykon).

2 Kings (LXX: 4 Kings)

20: 7And he said, Let them take a cake of figs (sykon), and lay it upon the ulcer, and he shall be well.

Isaiah (LXX)

28: 4 And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig (sykon); he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.
38: 21Now Esaias had said to Ezekias; Take a cake of figs (sykon), and mash them, and apply them as a plaister, and thou shalt be well.

Jeremiah (LXX)

8: 13There are no grapes on the vines, and there are no figs (sykon) on the fig-trees, and the leaves have fallen off.
24: 1The Lord shewed me two baskets of figs (sykon), lying in front of the temple of the Lord, after Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried captive Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda, and the princes, and the artificers, and the prisoners, and the rich men out of Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
24: 2The one basket was full of very good figs (sykon), as the early figs (sykon); and the other basket was full of very bad figs (sykon), which could not be eaten, for their badness.
24: 5Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; As these good figs (sykon), so will I acknowledge the Jews that have been carried away captive, whom I have sent forth out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for good.
24: 8And as the bad figs (sykon), which cannot be eaten, for their badness; thus saith the Lord, So will I deliver Sedekias king of Juda, and his nobles, and the remnant of Jerusalem, them that are left in this land, and the dwellers in Egypt.

Tobit (LXX: Sinaiticus version)

1: 7And I gave these to the priests, the sons of Aaron, at the altar, and the tenth of the grain and the wine dand olive oil and pomegranates and the figs (sykon) and the rest of the fruits to the sons of Leui who ministered in Jerousalem. Also I tithed the second tenth in silver for six years and would go and spend these things in Ierousalem each year.

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 (sykon) trees, and to the dung-gate: and I mourned over the wall of Jerusalem which they were destroying, and her gates were devoured with fire.
13 (23): 15In those days I saw in Juda men treading winepresses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and loading asses with both wine, and grapes, and figs (sykon), and every kind of burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath-day: