Hebrew verb · H1103
בָּלַס
balasbaw-las'
to gather/tend figs
1 use in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bâlaç
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1103is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 1spelling
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1103
to pinch sycamore figs (a process necessary to ripen them)
The King James renders it: gatherer.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
balas is rendered "to gather/tend figs". It stands 1 time in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Amos, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Amos 7:14“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.
The first use
“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.
Amos 7:14וּבוֹלֵ֥ס
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and a fig picker of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּבוֹלֵ֥ס1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Vqrmsc
Amos
one use
“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.
- וּבוֹלֵ֥סuvolesconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a fig picker of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.