# בָּלַס (balas)

Israeli respelling: ba-las. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1103. 1 Old Testament occurrences.

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

King James renderings: gatherer.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/balas-h1103

## Occurrences

- [Amos 7:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/14) — 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…