The common Greek word for the fruit of the fig tree (syke). Figs were a dietary staple in the ancient Mediterranean and carried proverbial significance. Jesus uses figs in sayings about discerning true character from visible fruit: 'Do you gather figs from thorns?' (Matt 7:16; Luke 6:44). Mark 11:13 narrates the cursing of the barren fig tree, where Jesus sought figs and found none. James 3:12 asks whether a fig tree can produce olives or a grapevine figs, illustrating the impossibility of mixed moral output from a single source.