Lexical Summary balas: to gather figs Original Word: בָּלַסTransliteration: balas Phonetic Spelling: (baw-las') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to gather figs Meaning: to pinch sycamore figs Strong's Concordance gatherer A primitive root; to pinch sycamore figs (a process necessary to ripen them) -- gatherer. Brown-Driver-Briggs H1103. balas [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 TristrNat. Hist. Bib. 399 Boii. cap. 39, p. 383 f.; Theodoret in FiHexapl. on the passage Theophriv. 2) — Qal Participle בּוֺלֵס, Amos 7:14 ׳בּ שִׁקְמִים. |
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