Quick Definition
σῦκον, ου, τό n.n. a fig
Strong's Definition
a fig
Derivation: apparently a primary word;
KJV Usage: fig
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, n. | -ου | συκάμινος · συκῆ · συκομορέα · συκοφαντέω
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σῦκον, -ov, τό, fr. Hom. down, Hebr. Nf, a fig, the ripe fruit of ἡ συκῆ [4- v-]: Mt. vii. 16; Mk. xi. 13; Lk. vi. 44; Jas. iii. 12.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σῦκον sykon 4x
a fig, a ripe fig, Mt. 7:16; Mk. 11:13; Lk. 6:44; Jas. 3:12*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σῦκον, -ου, τό
[in LXX for תְּאֵנָה ]
a fig: Mt 7:16, Mk 11:13, Lk 6:44 Ja 3:12.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σῦκον, “a fig’’: P Cairo Zen II. 592698 (B.c. 234) σ͵ήνκων καὶ ῥοῶν, ‘‘figs and roses,’’ BGU IV. 112018 (B.c. 5) δισχίλια σῦκα, P Oxy III. 529° (ii/a.p.) σφυρίδιν τραγημάτων éx@(= 0)v ἀρίθμια σῦκα p, ‘‘a basket of dessert containing 100 figs” (Edd.), 26. XIV. 163174 (A.D. 280) σύκων θερινῶν . . τετρακοσίων, ‘‘ 400 summer figs,’’and P Flor 11. 176*° (A.D. 256) ἐκ τῆς τῶν σύκων κακίας. This last document shows us also the dim. συκάριον---ϑ τέσσαρα κερτύλλια συκαρίων σαπρῶν. With our ‘‘as like as two peas” cf. Herodas VI. 60 σῦκον εἰκάσαι σύκῳ. For συκών, “ figgarden,’’ as in LXX Jer 517, see BGU 11. 5633-3 (ii/a.p.).
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
σῦκον (sukon) — fig. σῦκον, 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+]