basar · bring news

What it means

basar (בָּשַׂר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bring news”.

Announce it. Almost always good news; sometimes the news of a defeat (1 Samuel 4:17).

How to say it

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

1. To go and tell what happened, usually something good.
2. To make known the good things God does.
3. To be the one who hears and receives an important announcement.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• bring news ×3
• carry the news ×3
• one who brings good news ×3
• bring good news ×2
• bring the good news ×2
• brought the news ×2
• you who bring good news ×2
• I have proclaimed the good news ×1
• Receive the news ×1
• bring the news ×1
• others ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×7
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×3
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×1
• Nahum×1

• 1 Samuel 4:17

  And the one who brought the news answered and said, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and also there has been a great slaughter among the people, and also your two sons are dead, Hophni and Phinehas, and the ark of Elohim has been taken.”

• 1 Samuel 31:9

  They cut off his head and stripped off his weapons, and sent throughout the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to the house of their idols and to the people.

• 2 Samuel 1:20

  Do not report it in Gath, do not carry the news to the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.

• 2 Samuel 4:10

  when the one who reported to me, saying, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and he was in his own eyes like one bringing good news, I seized him and killed him in Ziklag, that was how I gave him a reward for his news.

• 2 Samuel 18:19

  Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and bring news to the king that YHWH has done him justice from the hand of his enemies.”

• 2 Samuel 18:20

  Joab said to him, “You are not a man of news this day; you may bring news another day, but this day you shall not bring news, because the king’s son is dead.”

• 2 Samuel 18:26

  The watchman saw another man running, and the watchman called to the gatekeeper and said, “Look, a man running alone!” The king said, “This one too is bringing news.”

• 2 Samuel 18:31

  And there the Cushite came, and the Cushite said, “Receive the news, my lord the king, that YHWH has done you justice today from the hand of all who rise up against you.”

• 1 Kings 1:42

  He was still speaking, and there came Jonathan son of Abiathar the priest. And Adonijah said, “Come in, for you are a man of worth, and you bring good news.”

• 1 Chronicles 10:9

  And they stripped him and took away his head and his weapons, and sent throughout the land of the Philistines all around, to carry the news to their idols and to the people.

• 1 Chronicles 16:23

  Sing to YHWH, all the earth; bring the news from day to day of his salvation.

• Psalms 40:9

  I have proclaimed the good news of righteousness in the great assembly; look, my lips I will not restrain; YHWH, you know it.

• Psalms 68:11

  Adonai gives the saying; the women who bring the good news are a great army:

• Psalms 96:2

  Sing to YHWH, bless his name; bring the good news from day to day of his salvation.

• Isaiah 40:9

  On a high mountain go up, Zion, you who bring good news; lift up with strength your voice, Jerusalem, you who bring good news; lift it up, do not fear; say to the cities of Judah, “Look, your Elohim!”

• Isaiah 41:27

  First to Zion: “Look, look at them”; and to Jerusalem one who brings good news I will give.

• Isaiah 52:7

  How beautiful are on the mountains the feet of the one who brings good news, who makes peace heard, who brings good news of good, who makes salvation heard, who says to Zion, “Your Elohim reigns!”

• Isaiah 60:6

  A throng of camels will cover you, young camels of Midian and Ephah; all of them will come from Sheba; gold and frankincense they will bring, and the praises of YHWH they will proclaim.

• Isaiah 61:1

  The spirit of Adonai YHWH is upon me, because YHWH has anointed me to bring good news to the humble; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and to the prisoners opening of the prison,

• Jeremiah 20:15

  Cursed be the man who brought the news to my father, saying, “A son is born to you, a male!” making him very glad.

• Nahum 1:15

  Look, on the mountains the feet of the one who brings good news, who makes peace heard! Celebrate, Judah, your festivals; fulfill your vows; for the perverse one will not again pass through you; he is entirely cut off.

And 3 more times.