Strong H4745מִקְרֶה
accident
- Transliteration
- miqreh
- Pronunciation
- mik-reh'
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H7136; something met {with} that {is} an accident or fortune: - something {befallen} {befalleth} {chance} {event} hap (-peneth).
Detailed definition
1) unforeseen meeting or event, accident, happening, chance, fortune
1a) accident, chance
1b) fortune, fate
1a) accident, chance
1b) fortune, fate
In the Bible
Strong H4745 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- event3
- befallen1
- befalleth1
- chance1
- hap1
- happeneth1
First verses
- Ruth 2:3And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.
- 1 Samuel 6:9And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth–shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.
- 1 Samuel 20:26Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
- Ecclesiastes 2:15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.