What Is Sycamore in the Bible?
Plant
A wild fig tree, different from the common fig tree. Zacchaeus climbed this tree.
It can mean
- In the Spanish Bible of 1836: “cabrahígo,” which is the wild fig tree.
- Careful: in English, “sycamore” is also the name of other trees that are very different; the one in the Bible is a fig tree.
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 19:4
What the Bible says
Luke 19:4
And running before, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, that he might see him; for he was to pass that way.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “sicomoro” and “cabrahígo”; Britannica, “sycamore”