1) unforeseen meeting or event, accident, happening, chance, fortune 1a) accident, chance 1b) fortune, fate
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H4745 — מִקְרֶה
miq.reh · accident · Hebrew/Aramaic
8 tagged verse occurrences
Ruth 2:3 · מִקְרֶ֔הָShe went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and she happened to come to the portion of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.1 Samuel 6:9 · מִקְרֶ֥הBehold; if it goes up by the way of its own border to Beth Shemesh, then he has done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that struck us; it was a chance that happened to us.”1 Samuel 20:26 · מִקְרֶ֣הNevertheless Saul didn’t say anything that day: for he thought, “Something has happened to him. He is not clean. Surely he is not clean.”Ecclesiastes 2:14 · שֶׁמִּקְרֶ֥הThe wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.Ecclesiastes 2:15 · כְּמִקְרֵ֤הThen I said in my heart, “As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.Ecclesiastes 3:19 · מִקְרֶ֨ה · וּמִקְרֶ֣ה · וּמִקְרֶ֤הFor that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.Ecclesiastes 9:2 · מִקְרֶ֨הAll things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.Ecclesiastes 9:3 · מִקְרֶ֥הThis is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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.