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# בָּלַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1103

**gather figs** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

gather figs [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1103/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּלַס: vb. denom. gather figs [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1103/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. gather figs, tend figtrees, sycamores (𝔊 κνίζων, 𝔙 vellicans, prob. properly to nip the sycamore fruit to fit it for eating, v. TristrNat. Hist. Bib. 399 Böii. cap. 39, p. 383 f.; Theodoret ap. FiHexapl. ad. loc. Theophrastiv. 2)— Pt. בּוֹלֵס, Am 7:14 בּ׳ שִׁקְמִים.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a fig picker (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 7:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.14/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַן עָמוֹס֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־אֲמַצְיָ֔ה לֹא־נָבִ֣יא אָנֹ֔כִי וְלֹ֥א בֶן־נָבִ֖יא אָנֹ֑כִי כִּֽי־בוֹקֵ֥ר אָנֹ֖כִי וּבוֹלֵ֥ס שִׁקְמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Amos and he.said to Amaziah not \[am\].a.prophet I and not \[am\].a.son of.a.prophet I (dm) \[was\].a.herdsman I and a.fig.picker of.sycamores

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1103.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1103/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).