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Strong's #1319 - בָּשַׂר
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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
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2025) rxb (בסר BSR) AC: Report CO: Flesh AB: Good: When good news is brought a feast with meat is prepared.
V) rxb (בסר BSR) - Report: When good news is brought a feast with meat is prepared. [df: rVb] KJV (24): (vf: Hitpael, Piel) tidings, show forth, publish, messenger, preached - Strongs: H1319 (בָּשַׂר)
Nf ) rxb (בסר BSR) - Flesh: The skin and muscle or the whole of the person. Also meat as food. [Hebrew and Aramaic] [df: rVb] KJV (273): flesh, body - Strongs: H1154 (בֶּסֶר), H1320 (בָּשָׂר), H1321 (בְּשַׂר)
cf1 ) erfxb (בסורה BSWRH) - Good news: When good news is brought a feast with meat is prepared. [df: hrwVb] KJV (6): tidings - Strongs: H1309 (בְּשׂוֹרָה)
gm ) rxfb (בוסר BWSR) - Sour Grape: [Unknown connection to root;] [df: rVb] KJV (4): unripe grapes, sour grapes - Strongs: H1155 (בֹּסֶר)
nm ) rxba (אבסר ABSR) - Meat: A choice piece of meat. [df: rpSa] KJV (2): piece - Strongs: H829 (אֶשְׁפָּר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
remove the face of surface of a thing, compare Arabic 
be glad, joyful; 
he rejoiced him with the message of the birth of a son; Ethiopic 
bring a joyful message, so Assyrian bussuru (Pa.) Dl Proverbs 170, Sabean תבשר DHM MV, also בשר proper name, of deity, 
DHM ZMG 1883,358, CIS iv. 1,41, 1. 3) — Pi`el Perfect בִּשַּׂר Jeremiah 20:15 2t.; Imperfect תְּבַשֵּׂר 2 Samuel 18:20 4t.; אֲבַשְּׂרָה 2 Samuel 18:19; Imperative בַּשְּׂרוּ 1 Chronicles 16:23 = Psalm 96:2; infinitive לְבַשֵּׂר 1 Samuel 31:9 2t.; Participle מְבַשֵּׂר Isaiah 41:27 6t.; feminine מְבַשֶּׂרֶת Isaiah 40:9 (twice in verse); plural מְבַשְּׂרוֺת Psalm 68:12; —
1 gladden with good tidings: birth of a son Jeremiah 20:15; victory 1 Samuel 31:9; 2 Samuel 1:20; 1 Chronicles 10:9; Psalm 68:12; היה כמבשׂר בעיניו he was in his eyes as a bearer of good tidings 2 Samuel 4:10.
2 bear tidings 2 Samuel 18:19,20 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 18:26; even of evil 1 Samuel 4:17, and so with accusative בשׂר טוב 1 Kings 1:42.
3 herald as glad tidings: the salvation of God, peach (chiefly exilic usage) the advent of ׳י in salvation Nahum 2:1; Isaiah 40:9 (twice in verse); Isaiah 41:27; Isaiah 52:7 (twice in verse); the praises of Yahweh Isaiah 60:6; His righteousness in the great congregation Psalm 40:10; His salvation daily Psalm 96:2 = 1 Chronicles 16:23; the Messianic servant preaches good tidings to the meek Isaiah 61:1.
Hithpa`el Imperfect יִתְבַּשֵּׂר 2 Samuel 18:31 receive good tidings (so Kirkp. Klo; compare Arabic 
IV. X; otherwise AV).
בָּשַׂר not used in Kal; Arab. بَشِرَ to be joyful, cheerful, especially in receiving glad tidings; Med. A. and Conj. II. to gladden with good tidings, with an acc. of person and ب of thing. The primary sense appears to be that of beauty, whence بَشِيرُ fair, beautiful, since a face is made more beautiful by joy and cheerfulness (see טוֹב good, fair, joyful); and, on the contrary, the face of a cross and angry person is disfigured; hence بَشَرُ, بَشَرَةُ the external skin of man, בָּשָׂר flesh, in which a person’s beauty is perceived.
Piel בִּשַּׂר
(1) to make any one cheerful with glad tidings, to bear glad tidings, to announce (glad tidings) to any one; with an acc. of pers. 2 Samuel 18:19, אָרוּצָה־נָּא אֲבַשְּׂרָה אֶת־הַמֶּלֶךְ כִּי וגו׳ “let me run and announce to the king what,” etc.; Psal. 68:12. הַמְבַשְּׂרוֹת צָבָא רַב “(women) announcing (victory) to a great host;” 1 Samuel 31:9; Isaiah 40:9 absol. 2 Samuel 4:10, הָיָה כִמְבַשֵּׂר בְּעֵינָיו “he supposed that he brought glad tidings;” also followed by an acc. of the thing announced, Isaiah 60:6; Psalms 40:10. Part. מְבַשֵּׂר a messenger of good news, Isaiah 40:9 especially of peace, Isaiah 52:7 of victory, 1 Samuel 31:9 Psal. 68:12.
(2) It is more rarely used of any messenger, 2 Samuel 18:20, 26 2 Samuel 18:26 and even one unpleasant, 1 Samuel 4:17 hence there is twice fully said, בִּשֵּׂר טוֹב 1 Kings 1:42; Isaiah 52:7.
Hithpael, to receive glad tidings, 2 Samuel 18:31 Arab. Conj. I. Med. E, and Conj. IV., VIII., X.
Derivatives בְּשׂוֹרָה and
