Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to be fresh, i.e. full (rosy, (figuratively) cheerful); to announce (glad news)
KJV Usage: messenger, preach, publish, shew forth, (bear, bring, carry, preach, good, tell good) tidings
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בָּשַׂר (ba.sar) — 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · בְּשֹׂרָה
Speak | verb pi, verb hit | ≈ נגד · שׁמע
to bring news, to announce, to proclaim, messenger = action by which humans pass on information to someone else, having been commissioned to do so by a deity or another person
1SA 4:17 · 1SA 31:9 · 2SA 1:20 · 2SA 4:10 · 2SA 18:19 · 2SA 18:20 · 2SA 18:20 · 2SA 18:26 · 2SA 18:31 · 1KI 1:42 · 1CH 10:9 · 1CH 16:23 · PSA 40:10 · PSA 68:12 · PSA 96:2 · ISA 40:9 · ISA 40:9 · ISA 41:27 · ISA 52:7 · ISA 52:7 · ISA 60:6 · ISA 61:1 · JER 20:15 · NAM 2:1
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[בָּשַׂר] vb. bear tidings Pi. gladden with good tidings
bear tidings
herald as glad tidings
Hithp. receive good tidings
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