מִקְרֶה
miq.reh
1. unforeseen meeting or event, accident, happening, chance, fortune
a. accident, chance
b. fortune, fate
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Concordance 8 verses
- Ruth 2:3 מִקְרֶ֔הָ
So Ruth departed and went out into the field and gleaned after the harvesters. And she happened to come to the part of the field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
- 1 Samuel 6:9 מִקְרֶ֥ה
but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
- 1 Samuel 20:26 מִקְרֶ֣ה
Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
- Ecclesiastes 2:14 שֶׁמִּקְרֶ֥ה
The wise man has eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also came to realize that one fate overcomes them both.
- Ecclesiastes 2:15 כְּמִקְרֵ֤ה
So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19 מִקְרֶ֨הוּמִקְרֶ֣הוּמִקְרֶ֤ה
For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 מִקְרֶ֨ה
It is the same for all: There is a common fate for the righteous and the wicked, for the good and the bad, for the clean and the unclean, for the one who sacrifices and the one who does not. As it is for the good, so it is for the sinner; as it is for the one who makes a vow, so it is for the one who refuses to take a vow.
- Ecclesiastes 9:3 מִקְרֶ֥ה
This is an evil in everything that is done under the sun: There is one fate for everyone. Furthermore, the hearts of men are full of evil and madness while they are alive, and afterward they join the dead.