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Lexicon :: Strong's H7136 - qārâ

Aa
קָרָה
Transliteration
qārâ
Pronunciation
kaw-raw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

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 BoxGen 24:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:12 - And he said, O Lord, the God of my master Abraham, let me do well in what I have undertaken this day, and give your mercy to my master Abraham.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:20 - And Isaac said, How is it that you have got it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God made it come my way.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:29 - So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:29 - If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:18 - And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:23 - And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:3 - Then Balaam said to Balak, Take your place by your burned offering, and I will go and see if the Lord comes to me: and I will give you word of whatever he says to me. And he went to an open place on a hill.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:4 - And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:15 - Then he said to Balak, Take your place here by your burned offering, while I go over there to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:16

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:16 - And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:11 - Then let certain towns be marked out as safe places to which anyone who takes the life of another in error may go in flight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18 - How, meeting you on the way, he made an attack on you when you were tired and without strength, cutting off all the feeble ones at the end of your line; and the fear of God was not in him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:3 - And she went, and came and took up the heads of grain in the field after the cutters; and by chance she went into that part of the field which was the property of Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:10 - And Saul made an oath to her by the Lord, saying, By the living Lord, no punishment will come to you for this.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:6 - And the young man said, I came by chance to Mount Gilboa, and I saw Saul supporting himself on his spear; and the war-carriages and horsemen overtook him.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:11 - Even to the woodworkers and builders to get cut stone and wood for joining the structure together and for making boards for the houses which the kings of Judah had given up to destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:8 - And a letter to Asaph, the keeper of the king's park, so that he may give me wood to make boards for the doors of the tower of the house, and for the wall of the town, and for the house which is to be mine. And the king gave me this, for the hand of my God was on me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:3 - The sons of Hassenaah were the builders of the fish doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 3:6 - Joiada, the son of Paseah, and Meshullam, the son of Besodeiah, made good the old doorway; they put its boards in place and put up its doors, with their locks and rods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:7 - And Mordecai gave him an account of what had taken place, and of the amount of money which Haman had said he would put into the king's store for the destruction of the Jews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 6:13 - And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 104:3 - The arch of your house is based on the waters; you make the clouds your carriage; you go on the wings of the wind:

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:14 - The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 2:15 - Then said I in my heart: As it comes to the foolish man, so will it come to me; so why have I been wise overmuch? Then I said in my heart: This again is to no purpose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 9:11 - And again I saw under the sun that the reward goes not to him who is quick, or the fruits of war to the strong; and there is no bread for the wise, or wealth for men of learning, or respect for those who have knowledge; but time and chance come to all.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:22 - Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:14 - Now I have come to give you knowledge of the fate of your people in the later days; for there is still a vision for the days.
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