* And over.
  1Ki 4:7 
 * the sycamore trees.
   The Hebrew {shikmin,} Syriac {shekmo,} and Arabic {jummeez,}
   is the [sykomoros,] or sycomore, of the Greeks, so called from
   [sykos,] a fig-tree, and [moros] a mulberry- tree, because it
   resembles the latter in its leaves, and the former in its
   fruits.  "The sycamore," says Mr. Norden, "is of the height of
   a beech, and bears its fruit in a manner quite different from
   other trees:  it has them on the trunk itself, which shoots
   out little sprigs, in form of grape stalks, at the end of
   which grow the fruit close to one another, almost like a
   cluster of grapes.  The tree is always green, and bears fruit
   several times in the year, without observing any certain
   seasons; for I have seen some sycamores that have given fruit
   two months after others.  The fruit has the figure and smell
   of real figs, but is inferior to them in the taste, having a
   disgusting sweetness.  Its colour is a yellow, inclining to an
   ochre, shadowed by a flesh colour.  In the inside it resembles
   the common figs, excepting that it has a blackish colouring
   with yellow spots.  This sort of tree is pretty common in
   Egypt; the people, for the greater part, live on its fruit,
   and think themselves well regaled when they have a piece of
   bread, a couple of sycamore figs, and a pitcher of water."

  1Ki 20:27