Strong’s H1103 · Hebrew

בָּלַס
bâlaç
baw-las'

Definition

to pinch sycamore figs (a process necessary to ripen them)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • gatherer

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.