Brown-Driver-Briggs
[
בָּלַס]
verb denominative gather figs, tend fig-trees, sycamores (
ᵐ5 κνίζων,
ᵑ9 vellicans, probably properly to
nip the sycamore fruit to fit it for eating, see Tristr
Nat. Hist. Bib. 399 Bo
ii. cap. 39, p. 383 f.; Theodoret in Fi
Hexapl. on the passage Theophr
iv. 2) —
Qal Participle בּוֺלֵס, Amos 7:14 שִׁקְמִים ׳בּ.