מִקְרֶה
miqreh · H4745 · Hebrew · 10 occurrences
Meanings
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accident
Event that takes place without apparent cause or reason
Examples1 Samuel 6:9 “But watch: if it goes up by the way of its own territory to Beth-shemesh, then He has done this great evil to us. But if not, then we will know that it was not His hand that struck us; it happened to us by chance.”
1 Samuel 20:26 Nevertheless Saul did not say anything that day, because he thought, “It must have been an accident; he is not clean, undoubtedly he is not clean.”
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fate, destiny
Things that are considered to be destined to happen to someone
ExamplesEcclesiastes 2:14 The wise person’s eyes are in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I know that one and the same fate happens to both of them.
Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then I said to myself, “As is the fate of the fool, it will also happen to me. Why then have I been extremely wise?” So I said to myself, “This too is futility.”
Ecclesiastes 3:19 For the fate of the sons of mankind and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath, and there is no advantage for mankind over animals, for all is futility.
How it’s used In 7 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- בֵּןson 1
- כְּסִילfool, foolish 1
- הּher 1
- בְּהֵמָהanimal, livestock 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶחָדone 4
What it doesIt is the subject
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- קָרָהto happen 2
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What it is said to bePredicate
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- זָבַחto sacrifice, to slaughter 2
- כֹּלall, every, whole 1
- הֶםthem 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּאhe, she, it 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- Happen002002003003
- The word denotes chance, an event, or something that happens, as when Ruth happened to come to Boaz's field, or the Philistines wondered whether their affliction was by chance.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4745. miqreh מִקְרֶה noun masculine1Sa 6:9 accident, chance, fortune; — absolute ׳מ 1Sa…
מִקְרֶה noun masculine1Sa 6:9 accident, chance, fortune; — absolute ׳מ 1Sa 6:9 +; construct מִקְרֵה Ecc 2:15 (so read also Ecc 3:19 (twice in verse) with ᵐ5 RuëtKau Wild, for מִקְרֶה ᵑ0); —
1 accident, chance, 1Sa 6:9; 1Sa 20:26; with קָרָה Rth 2:2 (see ׳ק 1).
2 in Ecclesiastes, fortune, fate, אֶתכֻּֿלָּם יִקְרֶה אֶחָד ׳מ Ecc 2:14 compare Ecc 2:15, Ecc 3:19 (3 t. in verse); Ecc 9:2-3,.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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