To gather/tend figs
בָּלַסStrong’s H1103balas (ba-las)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Balas is the Hebrew word usually translated “fig picker of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:”
Meaning
- (Qal) to gather figs, tend sycamore trees
How it's translated
- and a fig picker of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Amos 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בָּלַס balas · to gather/tend figs
(Qal) to gather figs, tend sycamore trees
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.