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# בֹּסֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1155

**unripe** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

unripe [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1155/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֹ֫סֶר: n.m. unripe or sour grapes [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1155/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 18:5 unripe or sour grapes coll. (NH id., Aramaic בּוּסְרָא, ܒܶܣܽܪܬܳܐ (PS; syllable ܒܶ uncertain \[Nes, privately\]; Polyglotts and Castell have ܒܣܰܪܬܳܐ); Arabic بُسْرٌ unripe dates)—בֹּסֶר Is 18:5 + 3 times, בִּסְרוֹ Jb 15:33;—unripe grapes Is 18:5 Jb 15:33; sour g. Je 31:29, 30 Ez 18:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: grape\[s\] (2); sour grape\[s\] (2); unripe grape\[s\] (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.33/#tree)

יַחְמֹ֣ס כַּגֶּ֣פֶן בִּסְר֑וֹ וְיַשְׁלֵ֥ךְ כַּ֝זַּ֗יִת נִצָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* he.will.treat.violently like (the) vine grape\[s\] his.unripe and he.will.shed like.(the) olive tree blossom his

*JPS 1917:* He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

[Jeremiah 31:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.29/#tree)

בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם לֹא־יֹאמְר֣וּ ע֔וֹד אָב֖וֹת אָ֣כְלוּ בֹ֑סֶר וְשִׁנֵּ֥י בָנִ֖ים תִּקְהֶֽינָה׃

*Word for word:* in the days (the) those not people.will.say again fathers they.have.eaten sour.grape\[s\] and.\[the\] teeth of.children they.will.be.blunt

*JPS 1917:* In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1155.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1155/): 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).