Luke 19:4

εἰς τὸ ἔμπροσθεν, in front of the crowd, to make sure; stationed at any point opposite the crowd he might miss his chance. συκομοραίαν, a fig mulberry tree, as many think = συκάμινος in Luke 17:6; but why then not use the same word in both places, the only two places in N.T. where they occur, both used by the same writer? To this it has been replied: “Although it may be admitted that the sycamine is properly and in Luke 17:6 the mulberry, and the sycamore the fig mulberry, or sycamore fig, yet the latter is the tree generally referred to in the O.T. and called by the Sept [148] sycamine, as 1 Kings 10:27; 1 Chronicles 27:28; Psalms 78:47; Amos 7:14. Dioscorides expressly says Συκόμορον, ἔνιοι δὲ καὶ τοῦτο συκάμινον λέγουσι, lib. i., cap. 180” (Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, s. v. Sycamore). This is in effect to say that through the influence of the Sept [149] and following common usage Lk. used the two words indifferently as synonyms. ἐκείνης : supply ὁδοῦ, cf. ποίας, Luke 5:19.

[148] Septuagint.

[149] Septuagint.