H4745 מִקְרֶה (miqreh) mik-reh'

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

accident

Strong's Definition

miqreh mik-reh' From H7136; something met with, that is, an accident or fortune: - something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap (-peneth).

Derivation: from H7136 (קָרָה);

KJV Usage: something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).

TWOT Reference: 2068c

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) unforeseen meeting or event, accident, happening, chance, fortune

1a) accident, chance

1b) fortune, fate

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מִקְרֶה (miq.reh) — accident. 1) unforeseen meeting or event, accident, happening, chance, fortune 1a) accident, chance 1b) fortune, fate

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

מִקְרֶה (H4745)

noun m · קרה

Happen

accident = event that takes place without apparent cause or reason

1SA 6:9 · 1SA 20:26

Happen

fate, destiny = things that are considered to be destined to happen to someone

RUT 2:3 · ECC 2:14 · ECC 2:15 · ECC 3:19 · ECC 3:19 · ECC 3:19 · ECC 9:2 · ECC 9:3

Reinier de Blois

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מִקְרֶה n.m. accident, chance, fortune accident, chance

in Ec, fortune, fate

base

Bible Occurrences (8)

2:3

6:9 20:26

2:14 2:15 3:19 9:2 9:3

Ruth 2:3

So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field [belonging] to Boaz, who [was] from the clan of Elimelech.

1 Samuel 6:9

but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”

1 Samuel 20:26

Saul said nothing... that day because he thought, Something has happened to [David] to make him ceremonially unclean...— surely he [is] unclean....”

Ecclesiastes 2:14

The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

So I said to myself, The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise? And I said to myself that this too is futile.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the fates of [both] men [and] beasts... are the same: As one dies, so dies the other — they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

Ecclesiastes 9:2

It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good [and the bad], for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not -. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so [it is] for the one who refuses to take a vow.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun:... There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men... are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they [join] the dead.