Hebrew noun (feminine) · H1309
בְּשׂוֹרָה
besorahbes-o-raw'
good news
6 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: bᵉsôwrâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1309is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H1309
glad tidings; by implication, reward forgood news
The King James renders it: reward for tidings.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
besorah is rendered "good news". It stands 6 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Five of the uses stand in 2 Samuel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 4:10when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
2 Samuel 4:10בְּשֹׂרָֽה׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- good news3
- news3
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּשַׁר | beshar | flesh | Uses3 |
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּשׂוֹרָ֥ה2
- בְּשׂוֹרָ֣ה1
- בְּשֹׂרָ֤ה1
- בְּשֹׂרָ֣ה1
- בְּשֹׂרָֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular6HNcfsa
2 Samuel
five uses
when someone told me, ‘Look, Saul is dead,’ and thought he was a bearer of good news, I seized him and put him to death at Ziklag. That was his reward for his news!
- בְּשֹׂרָֽה׃besorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: good news
But Joab replied, “You are not the man to take good news today. You may do it another day, but you must not do so today, because the king’s son is dead.”
- בְּשֹׂרָ֤הbesorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: news
Ahimaaz son of Zadok, however, persisted and said to Joab, “Regardless of whatever may happen, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” “My son,” Joab replied, “why do you want to run, since you will not receive a reward?”
- בְּשׂוֹרָ֥הbesorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: good news
So he called out and told the king. “If he is alone,” the king replied, “he bears good news.” As the first runner drew near,
- בְּשׂוֹרָ֣הbesorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: news
The watchman said, “The first man appears to me to be running like Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” “This is a good man,” said the king. “He comes with good news.”
- בְּשׂוֹרָ֥הbesorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: news
2 Kings
one use
Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
- בְּשֹׂרָ֣הbesorahnoun · feminine singulartagged: good news
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.