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Tuesday, November 4th, 2025
the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31

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Bible Lexicons

Old Testament Hebrew Lexical DictionaryHebrew Lexicon

Strong's #1103 - בָּלַס

Transliteration

bâlaç

Phonetics

baw-las'

Origin

a primitive root

Parts of Speech

verb

TWOT

250

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

(Qal) to gather figs, tend sycamore trees

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Amos 1

BSB (1)

Amos 1

CSB (1)

Amos 1

ESV (1)

Amos 1

KJV (1)

Amos 1

LEB (1)

Amos 1

LSB (3)

Amos 3

N95 (2)

Amos 2

NAS (3)

Amos 2

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (1)

Amos 1

Ancient Hebrew Lexicon Definitions

2019) x l b (בלס BLS) AC: ? CO: Gather AB: ?

V) x l b (בלס BLS) - Gather: To gather fruit from the tree. KJV (1): (vf: Paal) gatherer - Strongs: H1103 (בָּלַס)

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

[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. 383f.}; Theodoret in Fi^{Hexapl. on the passage} Theophr^{iv. 2}) —

Qal Participle בּוֺלֵס, Amos 7:14 שִׁקְמִים׳בּ.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

בָּלַס (denom. from بَلَسُ, በሰስ፡ a fig, in Eth. also sycomore), to cultivate figs (and sycomores), or to gather, or to eat them, comp. συκάζειν and ἀποσυκάζειν. Amos 7:14, בּוֹלֵס שִׁקְמִים, well rendered by the LXX. κνίζων συκάμινα. Vulg. vellicans sycamina. For nipping, vellicatio, belongs to the cultivation of sycamines. [“a process by which they were ripened, πέπτειν οὐ δύναται ἂν μὴ ἐπικνισθῇ· ἀλλʼ ἔχοντες ὄνυχας σιδηρᾶς ἐπικνίζουσιν· ἃ δʼ ἂν ἐπικνισθῇ, τεταρταῖα πέπτεται.”] See Theophr. Hist. Pl. iv. 2; Plin. N. H. xiii. 7, § 14. Bochart in Hieroz. i. 348, seq.;

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List of Word Forms

וּבוֹלֵ֥ס ובולס ū·ḇō·w·lês ūḇōwlês uvoLes