Lexicon :: Strong's H7122 - qārā'

Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Assemble yourselves [around me] that I may tell you what will happen to you and your descendants [fn]in the days to come.

“If you happen to come upon a bird’s nest along the road, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, and the mother [bird] is sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother with the young.

And the word of [the LORD through] Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out to meet the Philistines in battle and they camped beside Ebenezer while the Philistines camped at Aphek.

When the Philistine rose and came forward to meet David, David ran quickly toward the battle line to meet the Philistine.

When Saul saw David going out against the Philistine, he said to Abner the captain of the army, “Abner, whose son is this young man?” And Abner answered, “By your life, O king, I do not know.”

As they were coming [home], when David returned from killing the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet King Saul with tambourines, [songs of] joy, and [fn]musical instruments.

Then David went to [fn]Nob to [fn]Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came trembling [in fear] to meet David and said to him, “Why are you alone, and no one with you?”

David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you to meet me this day.

David came to the two hundred men who were so exhausted that they could not follow him and had been left at the brook Besor [with the provisions]. They went out to meet David and the people with him, and when he approached the people, he greeted them.

When David was a little past the summit [of the Mount of Olives], behold, Ziba, the servant of [fn]Mephibosheth, met him with a team of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a [fn]jug of wine.

Now Absalom met the servants of David. Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a massive tree, and his [fn]head was caught in [the thick branches of] the tree; and he was left hanging [in midair] between heaven and earth, while the mule that had been under him kept going.

There happened to be there [fn]a worthless and wicked man named Sheba the son of Bichri, a Benjamite. He blew a trumpet [to call Israel to revolt] and said,

“We have no portion in David

And no inheritance in the son of Jesse,

Every man to his tents, O Israel!”

Dread and trembling came upon me,

Which made all my bones shake.

These two tragedies have befallen you;

Who will show sympathy for you and mourn with you?

The desolation and destruction [on the land and city], famine and sword [on the inhabitants];

How shall I comfort you?

“And if you [wonder and] say in your heart,

‘Why have these things happened to me?’

It is because of the greatness and nature of your sin

That your skirts have been [fn]pulled away [subjecting you to public disgrace]

And [like a barefoot slave] your heels have been wounded.