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בָּלַס

ba.las

to gather/tend figs

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Strong’s H1103Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

a fig picker of1

In the text

Amos 7:14וּבוֹלֵס
“I was not a prophet,” Amos replied, “nor was I the son of a prophet; rather, I was a herdsman and a tender of sycamore-fig trees.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[בָּלַס] vb. denom. gather figs, tend fig-trees, sycamores—Am 7:14

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.