בָּשַׂר bâsar — properly, to be fresh, i.e. full (rosy, figuratively cheerful)
Translated in the KJV as messenger, preach, publish, shew forth, (bear, bring, carry, good, tell good) tidings.
a primitive root; properly, to be fresh, i.e. full (rosy, figuratively cheerful); to announce (glad news).
bâsar in each stem
Pi'el
Participle (active) 10Infinitive construct 3Imperfect (yiqtol) 3Imperative 2Perfect (qatal) 2Jussive 1Cohortative 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people.
Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the Lord hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›