Tidings

1. Report, news, rumourreport, news, tidings · mention

• a report 7
• the report 6
• and the report 2
• message 2
• report of 1
• from new 1
• and a report 1
• report our 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

• Isaiah 4
• Jeremiah 4
• Ezekiel 3
• 1 Samuel 2
• 2 Samuel 2
• 1 Kings 2

12 books in all.

• To bear tidings (basar)

• 1 Samuel 2:24Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the LORD’s people to transgress.
• 1 Samuel 4:19And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings that the ark of God was taken, and that her father in law and her husband were dead, she bowed herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her.
• 2 Samuel 4:4And Jonathan, Saul’s son, had a son that was lame of his feet. He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee, that he fell, and became lame. And his name was Mephibosheth.
• 2 Samuel 13:30And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king’s sons, and there is not one of them left.
• 1 Kings 2:28Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle of the LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
• 1 Kings 10:7Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard.

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

How the English word “tidings” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.