To bear tidings
בָּשַׂרStrong’s H1319basar (ba-sar)
Appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Basar is the Hebrew word usually translated “bears news”, “bear news” and “o bearer of news of”. It appears in 21 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.”
Meaning
- To bear news, bear tidings, publish, preach, show forth(Piel) · (Hithpael) to receive good news
How it's translated
- bears news 3
- to bear news 2
- you bear news 2
- bear news 2
- o bearer of news of 2
- the bearer of news 1
- like a bearer of news 1
- and let me bear news to 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Samuel 6
- Isaiah 5
- Psalms 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
- 1 Kings 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 31:9And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
- 2 Samuel 1:20Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
- 2 Samuel 4:10When 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:
- 2 Samuel 18:19Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the LORD hath avenged him of his enemies.
- 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 18:26And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.
Hebrew dictionary
בָּשַׂר basar · to bear tidings
1) to bear news, bear tidings, publish, preach, show forth 1a) (Piel) 1a1) to gladden with good news 1a2) to bear news 1a3) to announce (salvation) as good news, preach 1b) (Hithpael) to receive good news
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.