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title: בֹּסֶר — unripe · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בֹּסֶר (1155), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: unripe. BDB 1906: n.m. unripe or sour grapes. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בֹּסֶר

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«בֹּסֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **unripe** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 1155 · **BDB:** בֹ֫סֶר

### Glosses

grape\[s\] (2); sour.grape\[s\] (2); unripe.grape\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

unripe [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1155/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. unripe or sour grapes [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1155/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 18:5 unripe or sour grapes coll. (NH id., Aramaic בּוּסְרָא, ܒܶܣܽܪܬܳܐ (PS; syllable ܒܶ uncertain \[Nes, privately\]; Polyglotts and Castell have ܒܣܰܪܬܳܐ); Arabic بُسْرٌ unripe dates)—בֹּסֶר Is 18:5 + 3 times, בִּסְרוֹ Jb 15:33;—unripe grapes Is 18:5 Jb 15:33; sour g. Je 31:29, 30 Ez 18:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בֹּסֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1155/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 15:33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.33/)

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יַחְמֹ֣ס כַּגֶּ֣פֶן בִּסְר֑וֹ וְיַשְׁלֵ֥ךְ כַּ֝זַּ֗יִת נִצָּתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* he.will.treat.violently like (the) vine grape\[s\] his.unripe and he.will.shed like.(the) olive tree blossom his

*JPS 1917:* He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

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[Jeremiah 31:29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.31.29/)

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בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם לֹא־יֹאמְר֣וּ ע֔וֹד אָב֖וֹת אָ֣כְלוּ בֹ֑סֶר וְשִׁנֵּ֥י בָנִ֖ים תִּקְהֶֽינָה׃

*Word for word:* in the days (the) those not people.will.say again fathers they.have.eaten sour.grape\[s\] and.\[the\] teeth of.children they.will.be.blunt

*JPS 1917:* In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

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