King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H1103
Transliteration: balas
Phonetic Spelling: (baw-las')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to gather figs
Meaning: to pinch sycamore figs
Word 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.