Good news
בְּשֹׂרָהStrong’s H1309besvorah (be-s-vo-rah)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Besvorah is the Hebrew word usually translated “good news” and “news”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:”
Meaning
- News, good news, tidings, reward for good newsgood tidings · tidings, news · reward for good tidings
How it's translated
- good news 3
- news 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 5
- 2 Kings 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 18:20And Joab said unto him, Thou shalt not bear tidings this day, but thou shalt bear tidings another day: but this day thou shalt bear no tidings, because the king’s son is dead.
- 2 Samuel 18:22Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok yet again to Joab, But howsoever, let me, I pray thee, also run after Cushi. And Joab said, Wherefore wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?
- 2 Samuel 18:25And the watchman cried, and told the king. And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth. And he came apace, and drew near.
- 2 Samuel 18:27And the watchman said, Me thinketh the running of the foremost is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok. And the king said, He is a good man, and cometh with good tidings.
- 2 Kings 7:9Then they said one to another, We do not well: this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace: if we tarry till the morning light, some mischief will come upon us: now therefore come, that we may go and tell the king’s household.
Hebrew dictionary
בְּשֹׂרָה besvorah · good news
1) news, good news, tidings, reward for good news 1a) good tidings 1b) tidings, news 1c) reward for good tidings
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “news” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
NEWS, noun
[ From new; This word has a plural form, but is almost always united with a verb in the singular.]
- Recent account; fresh information of something that has lately taken place at a distance, or of something before unknown; tidings.
- A newspaper.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.