בֹּסֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1155

unripe — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

unripe tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֹ֫סֶר: n.m. unripe or sour grapes tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.m. Is 18:5 unripe or sour grapes coll. (NH id., Aramaic בּוּסְרָא, ܒܶܣܽܪܬܳܐ (PS; syllable ܒܶ uncertain [Nes, privately]; Polyglotts and Castell have ܒܣܰܪܬܳܐ); Arabic بُسْرٌ unripe dates)—בֹּסֶר Is 18:5 + 3 times, בִּסְרוֹ Jb 15:33;—unripe grapes Is 18:5 Jb 15:33; sour g. Je 31:29, 30 Ez 18:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: grape[s] (2); sour grape[s] (2); unripe grape[s] (1).

In the verses

Job 15:33 · tree →

יַחְמֹ֣ס כַּגֶּ֣פֶן בִּסְר֑וֹ וְיַשְׁלֵ֥ךְ כַּ֝זַּ֗יִת נִצָּתֽוֹ׃

Word for word: he.will.treat.violently like (the) vine grape[s] his.unripe and he.will.shed like.(the) olive tree blossom his

JPS 1917: He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Jeremiah 31:29 · tree →

בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם לֹא־יֹאמְר֣וּ ע֔וֹד אָב֖וֹת אָ֣כְלוּ בֹ֑סֶר וְשִׁנֵּ֥י בָנִ֖ים תִּקְהֶֽינָה׃

Word for word: in the days (the) those not people.will.say again fathers they.have.eaten sour.grape[s] and.[the] teeth of.children they.will.be.blunt

JPS 1917: In those days they shall say no more: 'The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.'

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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