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Lexicon :: Strong's H7125 - qārā'

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קָרָא
Transliteration
qārā'
Pronunciation
keer-aw'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
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TWOT Reference: 2064

Strong’s Definitions

קִרְאָה qirʼâh, keer-aw'; from H7122; an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite):—× against (he come), help, meet, seek, × to, × in the way.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 121x

The KJV translates Strong's H7125 in the following manner: meet (76x), against (40x), come (2x), help (1x), seek (1x), way (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 121x
The KJV translates Strong's H7125 in the following manner: meet (76x), against (40x), come (2x), help (1x), seek (1x), way (1x).
masculine noun (BDB)

  1. to encounter, befall, meet

    1. (Qal)

      1. to meet, encounter

      2. to befall (fig)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
קִרְאָה qirʼâh, keer-aw'; from H7122; an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite):—× against (he come), help, meet, seek, × to, × in the way.
STRONGS H7125: Abbreviations
Qal ... Infinitive construct121 לקְרַאת (Ges§ 19 k Ol§ 137), Genesis 15:10 +, etc.—
1. meet, encounter, only infinitive construct לִקְרַאת often= preposition toward, against (Köii. l, 317), almost always with accusative of person, after verb of motion, Isaiah 7:3; Genesis 19:1; Genesis 24:17; Judges 4:18, Judges 4:22; 1 Kings 2:8 +; in war, battle, Judges 7:24; Judges 20:25, Judges 20:31; 1 Samuel 4:1; 1 Kings 20:27 +, after עָרַךְ 2 Samuel 10:9, 2 Samuel 10:10, 2 Samuel 10:17 +, Psalm 35:3 see סגר 2b; לְחַזֵּק לִבָּם לִק׳ הַמִּלְחָמָה Joshua 11:20 to harden their heart to encounter the war with Israel; after הִנֵּה (without verb of motion), 1 Samuel 10:10; 2 Samuel 15:32; 2 Samuel 16:1; 1 Kings 18:7; Proverbs 7:10; in construction praegn. וַיִשְׂמַח לִק׳ Judges 19:3 he rejoiced to meet him, + [H8055 1 Samuel 6:13] (Greek Version of the LXX We Dr and others); חרד לִק׳ 2 Kings 10:15, נצב Exodus 5:20; Exodus 7:15; Numbers 22:34, etc.; redund. [redundant ?] לִק׳ יִקָּרֶה י׳ Numbers 23:3; implication of helping, Isaiah 21:14; Psalm 59:5 [Psalm 59:4] (figurative); נְחָשִׁים לִק׳ Numbers 24:1 he did not go to encounter (in expectation of) signs of divination; in metaphor Isaiah 14:9, || אֱםהֶי לִק׳ Amos 4:12

This is a portion of the full BDB entry H7122.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:10; 19:1; 24:17

Exodus

5:20; 7:15

Numbers

22:34; 23:3; 24:1

Joshua

11:20

Judges

4:18; 4:22; 7:24; 19:3; 20:25; 20:31

1 Samuel

4:1; 10:10

2 Samuel

10:9; 10:10; 10:17; 15:32; 16:1

1 Kings

2:8; 18:7; 20:27

2 Kings

10:15

Psalms

35:3; 59:4

Proverbs

7:10

Isaiah

7:3; 14:9; 21:14

Amos

4:12

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Strong's Number H7125 matches the Hebrew קָרָא (qārā'),
which occurs 100 times in 98 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 14:17–2Sa 10:9)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 14:17 - The king of Sedom went out to meet him, after his return from the slaughter of Kedorla`omer and the kings who were with him, at the valley of Shaveh (the same is the King's Valley).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 15:10 - He took him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn't divide the birds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 18:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:2 - He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the eretz,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:1 - The two angels came to Sedom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sedom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed himself with his face to the eretz,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:17 - The servant ran to meet her, and said, "Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 24:65

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:65 - She said to the servant, "Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?" The servant said, "It is my master." She took her veil, and covered herself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 29:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 29:13 - It happened, when Lavan heard the news of Ya`akov, his sister's son, that he ran to meet Ya`akov, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his house. Ya`akov told Lavan all these things.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:16 - Ya`akov came from the field in the evening, and Le'ah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's dudaim." He lay with her that night.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:6 - The messengers returned to Ya`akov, saying, "We came to your brother Esav. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:4 - Esav ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:29 - Yosef made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Yisra'el, his father, in Goshen. He presented himself to him, and fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:14 - The anger of the LORD was kindled against Moshe, and he said, "What about Aharon, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Also, behold, he comes forth to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 4:27 - The LORD said to Aharon, "Go into the wilderness to meet Moshe." He went, and met him on God's mountain, and kissed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 5:20 - They met Moshe and Aharon, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Par`oh:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:15 - Go to Par`oh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 14:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 14:27 - Moshe stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Mitzrim fled against it. The LORD overthrew the Mitzrim in the midst of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 18:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 18:7 - Moshe went out to meet his father-in-law, and bowed and kissed him. They asked each other of their welfare, and they came into the tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 19:17 - Moshe led the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the lower part of the mountain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:18 - Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 20:20

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 20:20 - He said, You shall not pass through. Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:23 - Sichon would not allow Yisra'el to pass through his border: but Sichon gathered all his people together, and went out against Yisra'el into the wilderness, and came to Yahatz; and he fought against Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 21:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:33 - They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and `Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edre`i.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:34 - Bil`am said to the angel of the LORD, I have sinned; for I didn't know that you stood in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease you, I will get me back again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 22:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:36 - When Balak heard that Bil`am was come, he went out to meet him to the City of Mo'av, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is in the utmost part of the border.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Bil`am 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. He went to a bare height.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 24:1

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:1 - When Bil`am saw that it pleased the LORD to bless Yisra'el, he didn't go, as at the other times, to meet with enchantments, but he set his face toward the wilderness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:13 - Moshe, and El`azar the Kohen, and all the princes of the congregation, went forth to meet them outside of the camp.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:44

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:44 - The Amori, who lived in that hill-country, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Se`ir, even to Hormah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 2:32

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:32 - Then Sichon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Yahatz.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:1 - Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and `Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edre`i.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:7 - When you came to this place, Sichon the king of Heshbon, and `Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them:

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:5 - and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - It happened, when the king of `Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Yisra'el to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the `Aravah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - The others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Yisra'el, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 9:11 - Our Zakenim and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:20 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, to come against Yisra'el in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moshe.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - Ya`el went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don't be afraid. He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Ya`el came out to meet him, and said to him, Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek. He came to her; and, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent-pin was in his temples.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:35

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:35 - He sent messengers throughout all Menashsheh; and they also were gathered together after him: and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zevulun, and to Naftali; and they came up to meet them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 7:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:24 - Gid`on sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Efrayim, saying, Come down against Midyan, and take before them the waters, as far as Beit-Barah, even the Yarden. So all the men of Efrayim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beit-Barah, even the Yarden.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:31 - then it shall be, that whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in shalom from the children of `Ammon, it shall be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 11:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:34 - Yiftach came to Mitzpah to his house; and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:5 - Then went Shimshon down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14 - When he came to Lechi, the Pelishtim shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily on him, and the ropes that were on his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands dropped from off his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:3 - Her husband arose, and went after her, to speak kindly to her, to bring her again, having his servant with him, and a couple of donkeys: and she brought him into her father's house; and when the father of the young lady saw him, he rejoiced to meet him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - Binyamin went forth against them out of Gevah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Yisra'el again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - The children of Binyamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Beit-El, and the other to Gevah, in the field, about thirty men of Yisra'el.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 6:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:20 - Then David returned to bless his household. Mikhal the daughter of Sha'ul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Yisra'el today, who uncovered himself today in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 10:5

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:5 - When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Wait at Yericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:9 - Now when Yo'av saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Yisra'el, and put them in array against the Aram:

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