בָּלַס bâlaç — to pinch sycamore figs (a process necessary to ripen them)
Translated in the KJV as gatherer.
a primitive root; to pinch sycamore figs (a process necessary to ripen them).
bâlaç in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it
Participle (active) 1
וּבוֹלֵ֥ס Amos 7:14 Participle (active), masculine singular
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:
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›