בֹּסֶר

«בֹּסֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: unripe — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 5 times · Key: 1155 · BDB: בֹ֫סֶר

Glosses

grape[s] (2); sour.grape[s] (2); unripe.grape[s] (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

unripe tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

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)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «בֹּסֶר» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Job 15:33

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

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.'

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