Miqreh — H4745

Definition

masculine noun

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

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

Usually translated as

befalleth, event, something befallen, chance, hap, happeneth

Origin

from H7136

• Derived from Qârâh (H7136)

Occurrences

Miqreh occurs 10 times in 8 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Ruth (1), 1 Samuel (2), Ecclesiastes (5)

• Ruth 2:3 — And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap (מִקְרֶ֔הָ) 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 (מִקְרֶ֥ה) that happened to us.
• 1 Samuel 20:26 — Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen (מִקְרֶ֣ה) 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 (שֶׁמִּקְרֶ֥ה) happeneth to them all.
• Ecclesiastes 2:15 — Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth (כְּמִקְרֵ֤ה) 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 (מִקְרֶ֨ה) 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 3:19 — For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth (וּמִקְרֶ֣ה) 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 3:19 — For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth (וּמִקְרֶ֤ה) 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 (מִקְרֶ֨ה) 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 (מִקְרֶ֥ה) 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.