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Lexicon :: Strong's H7136 - qārâ

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קָרָה
Transliteration
qārâ
Pronunciation
kaw-raw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 2068,2068e

Strong’s Definitions

קָרָה qârâh, kaw-raw'; a primitive root; to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor):—appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's H7136 in the following manner: happen (7x), meet (5x), beams (4x), befall (3x), brought (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's H7136 in the following manner: happen (7x), meet (5x), beams (4x), befall (3x), brought (1x), miscellaneous (7x).

  1. to encounter, meet, befall, happen, come to meet

    1. (Qal)

      1. to encounter, meet

      2. to befall

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to encounter, meet (without pre-arrangement)

      2. to chance to be present

      3. to come to meet

    3. (Hiphil) to cause to meet, appoint

  2. to build with beams

    1. (Piel) to lay the beams of, furnish with beams

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קָרָה qârâh, kaw-raw'; a primitive root; to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor):—appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.
STRONGS H7136: Abbreviations
† [קָרָה] verb encounter, meet, befall (||) II קָרָא Late Hebrew קָרָה meet (rare), קְרִי misfortune specifically (nocturnal) pollution, and so Aramaic קִרְיוּתָא bdb089904; Arabic bdb089905 (bdb089906) is go seek earnestly bdb089907, receive hospitably as guest; Ethiopic II. 3, bdb089908 present, offer as sacrifice); —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix קָֽרְךָ Deuteronomy 25:18, (ו)קָרָהוּ Genesis 44:29 +; Imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular יִקְרֶה Ecclesiastes 9:11 + Daniel 10:14 Kt (Qr יִקְרָא), וָיִ֫קֶר Ruth 2:3, suffix יִקְרְךָ Numbers 11:23, יִקְּרֵךְ 1 Samuel 28:10 (dagesh forte dirimens); Participle feminine plural קֹרֹת Genesis 42:29; —
1. encounter, meet, accusative of person Deuteronomy 25:18, compare (accusative of thing) וַיִ֫קֶר מִקְרֶהָ חֶלְקַת וגו׳ Ruth 2:3 her chance lighted upon field, etc.
2. befall, accusative of person, subject evil Genesis 44:29 (J), 1 Samuel 28:10, י׳'s word Numbers 11:23 (JE), indefinite Genesis 42:29 (J) Isaiah 41:22 (absolute) Esther 4:7; Esther 6:13; Daniel 10:14 (ל person); עֵת וָפֶגַע יִק׳ אֶתכֻּֿלָּם Ecclesiastes 9:11; subject מִקְרֶה Ecclesiastes 2:14; compare Ecclesiastes 2:15.
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נִקְרָה Exodus 3:18; 1st person singular נִקְרֵיתִי 2 Samuel 1:6; Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יִקָּרֶה Numbers 23:3, וַיִּקָּר Numbers 23:4, 16; 1st person singular אִקָּרֶה Numbers 23:15; —
1. encounter, meet without pre-arrangement, usually of י׳ (God): with עַל person Exodus 3:18 (J), אֶל Pers. Numbers 23:4, 16 לִקְרָתִי י׳ יִקּ׳ Numbers 23:3 (all J E); object י׳ (om) Numbers 23:15.
2. chance to be present, ב location, 2 Samuel 1:6 (+Infinitiveabs נִקְרֹא).
Hiph.
1. of י׳ cause (the right thing good fortune) to occur, with לִפְנֵי Perfect 3rd person masculine singular הִקְרָה Genesis 27:20 Imperative masculine singular הַקְרֵה Genesis 24:12 (both J).
2. of Israel, Perfect 2nd person masculine plural conesecutive וְהִקְרִיתֶם לָכָם עָרִים Numbers 35:11 ye shall (cause cities to occur rightly for yourselves, i.e.) select cities as suitable.

† [קָרָה] verb denominative
Pi. lay the beams of, furnish with beams; — with accusative of the building: Perfect 3rd person plural suffix קֵרוּהוּ Nehemiah 3:3, 6; Infinitive construct לְקָרוֺת Nehemiah 2:8; 2 Chronicles 34:11; Participle הַמְּקָרֶה Psalm 104:3 (figurative).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

24:12; 27:20; 42:29; 42:29; 44:29; 44:29

Exodus

3:18; 3:18

Numbers

11:23; 11:23; 23:3; 23:3; 23:4; 23:4; 23:15; 23:15; 23:16; 23:16; 35:11

Deuteronomy

25:18; 25:18

Ruth

2:3; 2:3

1 Samuel

28:10; 28:10

2 Samuel

1:6; 1:6

2 Chronicles

34:11

Nehemiah

2:8; 3:3; 3:6

Esther

4:7; 6:13

Psalms

104:3

Ecclesiastes

2:14; 2:15; 9:11; 9:11

Isaiah

41:22

Daniel

10:14; 10:14

H7136

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Strong's Number H7136 matches the Hebrew קָרָה (qārâ),
which occurs 27 times in 27 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:12 - Then he said, “O LORD God of my master Abraham, please give me success this day, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:20 - But Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” And he said, “Because the LORD your God brought it to me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 42:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:29 - Then they went to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying:

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 44:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:29 - ‘But if you take this one also from me, and calamity befalls him, you shall bring down my gray hair with sorrow to the grave.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - “Then they will heed your voice; and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt; and you shall say to him, ‘The LORD God of the Hebrews has met with us; and now, please, let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:23 - And the LORD said to Moses, “Has the LORD’s arm been shortened? Now you shall see whether what I say will happen to you or not.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, “Stand by your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps the LORD will come to meet me, and whatever He shows me I will tell you.” So he went to a desolate height.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - And God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered on each altar a bull and a ram.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - And he said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet[fn] the LORD over there.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:16 - Then the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - ‘then you shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally may flee there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18 - “how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - Then she left, and went and gleaned in the field after the reapers. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:10 - And Saul swore to her by the LORD, saying, “As the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:6 - Then the young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance to be on Mount Gilboa, there was Saul, leaning on his spear; and indeed the chariots and horsemen followed hard after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:11 - They gave it to the craftsmen and builders to buy hewn stone and timber for beams, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - “and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he must give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel which pertains to the temple,[fn] for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.” And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:3 - Also the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate; they laid its beams and hung its doors with its bolts and bars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:6 - Moreover Jehoiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the Old Gate; they laid its beams and hung its doors, with its bolts and bars.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries to destroy the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 104:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3 - He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters,
Who makes the clouds His chariot,
Who walks on the wings of the wind,

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:14 - The wise man’s eyes are in his head,
But the fool walks in darkness.
Yet I myself perceived
That the same event happens to them all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:15 - So I said in my heart,
“As it happens to the fool,
It also happens to me,
And why was I then more wise?”
Then I said in my heart,
“This also is vanity.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11 - I returned and saw under the sun that—

The race is not to the swift,
Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise,
Nor riches to men of understanding,
Nor favor to men of skill;
But time and chance happen to them all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 - “Let them bring forth and show us what will happen;
Let them show the former things, what they were,
That we may consider them,
And know the latter end of them;
Or declare to us things to come.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:14 - “Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision refers to many days yet to come.”
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