Word study
New
9 Hebrew and 7 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: new, news. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
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How often each original word is translated “new” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- חָדָשׁ châdâshnewtranslated this way 50 times of its 53 uses · Strong’s H2319Adjective · Translated: new 42, offering of new 2, new things 2Full study and all 48 verses →
Exodus 1:8 Then a new king, who did not know Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
Leviticus 23:16 You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD.
- תִּירוֹשׁ tîrôshmust, fresh or new winetranslated this way 36 times of its 38 uses · Strong’s H8492Noun · Translated: new wine 36, wine 1, tread grapes 1Full study and all 38 verses →
Genesis 27:28 May God give to you the dew of heaven and the richness of the earth — an abundance of grain and new wine.
Numbers 18:12 I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.
- חֹדֶשׁ chôdesh(newness), new moon, monthtranslated this way 22 times of its 254 uses · Strong’s H2320Noun · Translated: month 165, months 31, day 18, New Moon 11Full study and all 219 verses →
Numbers 28:14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram, and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon throughout the year.
1 Samuel 20:5 So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
- בָּשַׂר bâsarbear tidingstranslated this way 13 times of its 23 uses · Strong’s H1319Verb · Translated: proclaim 4, herald of good news 3, proclaim the news 2, brings good news 2Full study and all 21 verses →
1 Samuel 31:9 They cut off Saul’s head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among their people.
2 Samuel 4:10 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!
- שְׁמוּעָה shemûâhreporttranslated this way 7 times of its 27 uses · Strong’s H8052Noun · Translated: report 7, news 7, rumor 6, message 4Full study and all 24 verses →
1 Samuel 4:19 Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
1 Kings 2:28 When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah but not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the LORD and took hold of the horns of the altar.
- בְּשׂוֹרָה besôrâhtidingstranslated this way 4 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s H1309Noun · Translated: good news 2, for 1, take good news 1, reward 1Full study and all 6 verses →
2 Samuel 18:20 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.”
2 Kings 7:9 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.”
- שֵׁמַע shêmasoundtranslated this way 3 times of its 18 uses · Strong’s H8088Noun · Translated: report 5, fame 4, news 3, hear 2Full study and all 17 verses →
Genesis 29:13 When Laban heard the news about his sister’s son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his home, where Jacob told him all that had happened.
Isaiah 23:5 When the report reaches Egypt, they will writhe in agony over the news of Tyre.
- דֶּשֶׁא deshegrasstranslated this way 2 times of its 14 uses · Strong’s H1877Noun · Translated: vegetation 3, green shoots 2Full study and all 14 verses →
Deuteronomy 32:2 Let my teaching fall like rain and my speech settle like dew, like gentle rain on new grass, like showers on tender plants.
Proverbs 27:25 When hay is removed and new growth appears and the grass from the hills is gathered,
- מִחְיָה michyâhpreservation of life, sustenancetranslated this way 2 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s H4241Noun · Translated: new life 2, save lives 1, raw 1, sustenance 1Full study and all 7 verses →
Ezra 9:8 But now, for a brief moment, grace has come from the LORD our God to preserve for us a remnant and to give us a stake in His holy place. Even in our bondage, our God has given us new life and light to our eyes.
Ezra 9:9 Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
Greek words (New Testament)
- καινός kainósfresh, newtranslated this way 39 times of its 41 uses · Strong’s G2537Adjective · Translated: new 39, anew 2Full study and all 35 verses →
Matthew 9:17 Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
Mark 1:27 All the people were amazed and began to ask one another, “What is this? A new teaching with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey Him!”
- εὐαγγελίζω euangelízōI bring good news, preach good tidingstranslated this way 17 times of its 54 uses · Strong’s G2097Verb · Translated: preached 8, preach the gospel 8, proclaiming the good news 4, preaching the gospel 4Full study and all 52 verses →
Matthew 11:5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
Luke 1:19 “I am Gabriel,” replied the angel. “I stand in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.
- νέος néosyoung, new, freshtranslated this way 11 times of its 24 uses · Strong’s G3501Adjective · Translated: new 11, younger 7, young 3, youngest 1Full study and all 21 verses →
Matthew 9:17 Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
Mark 2:22 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”
- λόγος lógosa word, speech, divine utterance, analogytranslated this way 4 times of its 311 uses · Strong’s G3056Noun · Translated: word 142, words 52, message 32, account 10Full study and all 298 verses →
Mark 1:45 But the man went out and openly began to proclaim and spread the news. Consequently, Jesus could no longer enter a town in plain view, but He stayed out in solitary places. Yet people came to Him from every quarter.
Luke 5:15 But the news about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came to hear Him and to be healed of their sicknesses.
- ἀκοή akoḗhearing, faculty of hearing, eartranslated this way 2 times of its 23 uses · Strong’s G189Noun · Translated: hearing 6, ears 4, heard 3, rumors 2Full study and all 21 verses →
Matthew 4:24 News about Him spread all over Syria, and people brought to Him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering acute pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and He healed them.
Mark 1:28 And the news about Jesus spread quickly through the whole region of Galilee.
- φήμη phḗmēa report, fametranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G5345Noun · Translated: news 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Matthew 9:26 And the news about this spread throughout that region.
Luke 4:14 Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news about Him spread throughout the surrounding region.
- εὐαγγέλιον euangélionthe good news, the gospeltranslated this way 2 times of its 74 uses · Strong’s G2098Noun · Translated: gospel 72, good news 2Full study and all 72 verses →
Acts 20:24 But I consider my life of no value to me, if only I may finish my course and complete the ministry I have received from the Lord Jesus — the ministry of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.
Romans 10:16 But not all of them welcomed the good news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our message?”
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.