Advertise
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible [1]
ADVERTISE . Ruth 4:4 ‘I thought to advertise thee,’ i.e. inform thee; so Numbers 24:14 .
King James Dictionary [2]
ADVERTI'SE, s as z. See Advert.
1. To inform to give notice, advice or intelligence to, whether of a past or present event, or of something future.
I will advertise thee what this people will do to thy people in the latter day. Numbers 24 .
I thought to advertise thee, saying buy it before the inhabitants and elders of my people. Ruth 4 .
In this sense, it has of before the subject of information as, to advertise a man of his losses.
2. To publish a notice of to publish a written or printed account of as, to advertise goods or a farm.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
ad´vẽr -tı̄z : This word is found twice in the Old Testament: In Numbers 24:14 (from Hebrew, יעץ , ȳa‛ac , "to advise") Balsam advises Balak of the future of Israel and its influence upon his kingdom ("I will advertise thee"). In the King James Version Rth 4:4 (from גּלה אזן , gālāh 'ōzen , "to uncover the ear," "to reveal") Boaz in speaking to the nearer kinsman of Ruth: "I thought to advertise thee" (the Revised Version, margin "uncover thine ear").
