akin to phemi, "to speak," denotes "information," especially against fraud or other delinquency, and is rendered "tidings" in Act 21:31.
Note: In Act 11:22, AV, logos, "a word, a report" (RV), is rendered "tidings."
is used of any message designed to cheer those who receive it; it is rendered "to bring, declare, preach," or "show good or glad tidings," e.g., Luk 1:19, Luk 2:10, Luk 3:18, RV; Luk 4:43, RV; Luk 7:22, RV; Luk 8:1, Act 8:12, Act 10:36, RV; Act 14:15, RV; in 1Th 3:6, "brought us glad (AV, good) tidings;" in Heb 4:2, RV, "we have had good tidings preached;" similarly, Heb 4:6; in 1Pe 1:25 rhema, "a word," is coupled with this verb, "the word of good tidings which was preached," RV (AV, "the word which by the gospel is preached"). See PREACH, A, No. 1. "to announce, declare," is rendered "(no) tidings ... came," in Rom 15:21, RV, AV, "was (not) spoken of." See TELL.
