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Lexicon :: Strong's H4745 - miqrê

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מִקְרֶה
Transliteration
miqrê
Pronunciation
mik-reh'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2068c

Strong’s Definitions

מִקְרֶה miqreh, mik-reh'; from H7136; something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune:—something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x

The KJV translates Strong's H4745 in the following manner: befall (4x), event (3x), hap (1x), chance (1x), happeneth (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 10x
The KJV translates Strong's H4745 in the following manner: befall (4x), event (3x), hap (1x), chance (1x), happeneth (1x).

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

    1. accident, chance

    2. fortune, fate

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מִקְרֶה miqreh, mik-reh'; from H7136; something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune:—something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).
STRONGS H4745: Abbreviations
† מִקְרֶה noun masculine1 Samuel 6:9 accident, chance, fortune; — absolute מ׳ 1 Samuel 6:9 +; construct מִקְרֵה Ecclesiastes 2:15 (so read also Ecclesiastes 3:19 (twice in verse) with Greek Version of the LXX RuëtKau Wild, for MT מִקְרֶה); —
1. accident, chance, 1 Samuel 6:9; 1 Samuel 20:26; with קָרָה Ruth 2:3 (see ק׳ 1).
2. in Ecclesiastes, fortune, fate, מ׳ אֶחָד יִקְרֶה אֶתכֻּֿלָּם Ecclesiastes 2:14 compare Ecclesiastes 2:15, 3:19 (3 times in verse); Ecclesiastes 9:2, 3.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Ruth

2:3

1 Samuel

6:9; 6:9; 6:9; 20:26

Ecclesiastes

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

H4745

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H4745 matches the Hebrew מִקְרֶה (miqrê),
which occurs 10 times in 8 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rth 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - So she set out 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 clan of Elimelech.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 6:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:9 - and watch. If it goes up on the way to its own land, to Beth-shemesh, then it is he who has done us this great harm, but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it happened to us by coincidence.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 20:26

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:26 - Yet Saul did not say anything that day, for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean; surely he is not clean.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:14 - The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. And yet I perceived that the same event happens to all of them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:15 - Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:19 - For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:2 - It is the same for all, since the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[fn] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who swears is as he who shuns an oath.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:3 - This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that the same event happens to all. Also, the hearts of the children of man are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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