Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H4745: מִקְרֶה

miqreh · pronounced mik-reh' · “accident”

Definition

something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune

KJV translates it as: something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).

Word origin: from H7136 (קָרָה);

Extended definition

1) unforeseen meeting or event, accident, happening, chance, fortune
1a) accident, chance
1b) fortune, fate

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H4745 is translated

  • fate ×4
  • the fate of ×3
  • her ×1
  • chance ×1
  • is an accident ×1

Bible verses with H4745 (miqreh)

Miqreh appears in 8 verses.

  • Ruth 2:3

    And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.

  • 1 Samuel 6:9

    And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Beth–shemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us; it was a chance that happened to us.

  • 1 Samuel 20:26

    Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:14

    The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:15

    Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

  • Ecclesiastes 3:19

    For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:2

    All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:3

    This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, 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.