Lexicon balas: to gather figs Original Word: בָּלַסPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: balas Phonetic Spelling: (baw-las') Short Definition: figs NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origindenominative verb from an unused word Definitionto gather figs NASB Translationgrower of figs (1).
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.
Strong's gatherer A primitive root; to pinch sycamore figs (a process necessary to ripen them) -- gatherer. |
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