Strong’s H1103 · Hebrew
בָּלַס
bâlaç · baw-las'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to pinch sycamore figs (a process necessary to ripen them)
In the King James Version gatherer.
In 1 verse of the King James Version
- Amos 7:14Then 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:
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.