Strong's Concordance balas: to gather figs Original Word: בָּלַסPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: balas Phonetic Spelling: (baw-las') Short Definition: figs Brown-Driver-Briggs [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 שִׁקְמִים ׳בּ. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance gatherer A primitive root; to pinch sycamore figs (a process necessary to ripen them) -- gatherer. Forms and Transliterations וּבוֹלֵ֥ס ובולס ū·ḇō·w·lês ūḇōwlês uvoLesLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Hebrew 11031 Occurrence ū·ḇō·w·lês — 1 Occ. Amos 7:14 HEB: בוֹקֵ֥ר אָנֹ֖כִי וּבוֹלֵ֥ס שִׁקְמִֽים׃ NAS: for I am a herdsman and a grower of sycamore KJV: but I [was] an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit: INT: herdsman and a grower of sycamore |