בֹּסֶר
boser · unripe grape
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1155 · appears 4 times in the Bible
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boser (בֹּסֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “unripe grape”.
An unripe or sour grape.
How to say it
bo·ser
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Grapes not yet ripe.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- sour grapes ×2
- unripe grape ×1
- unripe grapes ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Isaiah 18:5
For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes an unripe grape ripening, he will cut off the tendrils with pruning knives, and the spreading branches he will remove, he will cut away.
- Jeremiah 31:29
In those days they will no longer say, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
- Jeremiah 31:30
But each one for his own iniquity will die; every human being who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.
- Ezekiel 18:2
“What do you mean, you who speak this proverb about the soil of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers eat unripe grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?