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title: בָּלַס — gather figs · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בָּלַס (1103), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: gather figs. BDB 1906: vb. denom. gather figs. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בָּלַס

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«בָּלַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **gather figs** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1103 · **BDB:** בָּלַס

### Glosses

a.fig.picker (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

gather figs [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1103/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. denom. gather figs [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1103/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. gather figs, tend figtrees, sycamores (𝔊 κνίζων, 𝔙 vellicans, prob. properly to nip the sycamore fruit to fit it for eating, v. TristrNat. Hist. Bib. 399 Böii. cap. 39, p. 383 f.; Theodoret ap. FiHexapl. ad. loc. Theophrastiv. 2)— Pt. בּוֹלֵס, Am 7:14 בּ׳ שִׁקְמִים.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בָּלַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1103/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Amos 7:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.7.14/)

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וַיַּ֤עַן עָמוֹס֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֶל־אֲמַצְיָ֔ה לֹא־נָבִ֣יא אָנֹ֔כִי וְלֹ֥א בֶן־נָבִ֖יא אָנֹ֑כִי כִּֽי־בוֹקֵ֥ר אָנֹ֖כִי וּבוֹלֵ֥ס שִׁקְמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Amos and he.said to Amaziah not \[am\].a.prophet I and not \[am\].a.son of.a.prophet I (dm) \[was\].a.herdsman I and a.fig.picker of.sycamores

*JPS 1917:* Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah: 'I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son; but I was a herdman, and a dresser of sycamore-trees;

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