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# בְּשֹׂרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1309

**tidings** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

tidings [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1309/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְּשׂרָה: n.f. tidings [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1309/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. tidings (cf. Arabic بِشَارَةٌ v. BaNB 61; Sab. בשרן DHM ZMG 1876, 672), 2 S 4:10 + 3 times; בְּשׂוֹרָה 2 S 18:25, 27— good tidings 2 K 7:9. tidings, news 2 S 18:20, 25; with טובה 2 S 18:27. reward for good tidings 2 S 4:10; 18:22.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: news (4); of news (2).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 18:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.18.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.18.25/#tree)

וַיִּקְרָ֤א הַצֹּפֶה֙ וַיַּגֵּ֣ד לַמֶּ֔לֶךְ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ אִם־לְבַדּ֖וֹ בְּשׂוֹרָ֣ה בְּפִ֑יו וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ הָל֖וֹךְ וְקָרֵֽב׃

*Word for word:* and he.called.out the watchman and he.told to the king and he.said the king if he alone news \[is\].in mouth his and he.came coming and approaching

*JPS 1917:* And 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 18:27](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.18.27/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.18.27/#tree)

וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ הַצֹּפֶ֔ה אֲנִ֤י רֹאֶה֙ אֶת־מְרוּצַ֣ת הָרִאשׁ֔וֹן כִּמְרֻצַ֖ת אֲחִימַ֣עַץ בֶּן־צָד֑וֹק וַיֹּ֤אמֶר הַמֶּ֙לֶךְ֙ אִֽישׁ־ט֣וֹב זֶ֔ה וְאֶל־בְּשׂוֹרָ֥ה טוֹבָ֖ה יָבֽוֹא׃

*Word for word:* and he.said the watchman I \[am\].seeing (et) the.running of the.first.\[one\] like the.running of.Ahimaaz the.son of.Zadok and he.said the king \[is\].a.man good this and with news good he.is.coming

*JPS 1917:* And the watchman said: 'I think 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.'

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1309/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).