Cyrus H. Gordon discusses Ugaritic bšr; defines it as "to get tidings (good or evil)," sometimes in a religious context.

Date
1965
Type
Book
Source
Cyrus H. Gordon
Non-LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Secondary
Reference

Cyrus H. Gordon, Ugaritic Textbook (Analecta Orientalia 38; Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1965), 377

Scribe/Publisher
Pontificium Institutum Biblicum
People
Cyrus H. Gordon
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

535. bšr II ‘to get tidings (good or evil)’ (76:III:34, 35); D ‘to bring tidings’ (1 Aqht 86); bšrt (76:III:34) ‘tidings’ ; (51:V:88) tbšr b'l (89) bšrtk.yblt ‘be informed, O Ba'l, I bring thy tidings’. בַּשֵּׂר 'to bring tidings (good or evil, cf. 1 Sam. 4.17)

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