Word Study · Strong's H4745 · Hebrew
מִקְרֶה
miqreh
mik-reh'
“something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune
Rendered in the KJV as
something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).
- 10occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 3 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 8inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 10 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 8
- מִקְרֶ֥ה2
- מִקְרֶ֨ה2
- וּמִקְרֶ֣ה1
- וּמִקְרֶ֤ה1
- כְּמִקְרֵ֤ה1
- מִקְרֶ֣ה1
- מִקְרֶ֔הָ1
- שֶׁמִּקְרֶ֥ה1
How it is rendered · 9
- fate2
- [is] an accident1
- [the] fate of1
- and [the] fate of1
- and fate1
- chance1
- chance her1
- like [the] fate of1
- that fate1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- noun · masculine singular5
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
- relative particle (“who / which”) + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcmsa · 5
- HC/Ncmsa · 2
- HNcmsc/Sp3fs · 1
- HR/Ncmsc · 1
- HTr/Ncmsa · 1
All 10, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
Ecclesiastes carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.
1 Samuel2 occurrences
- 1 Samuel 6:9מִקְרֶ֥הmikrehnoun · masculine singularbut 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.”here: chance
- 1 Samuel 20:26מִקְרֶ֣הmikrehnoun · masculine singularSaul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”here: [is] an accident
Ecclesiastes7 occurrences
- Ecclesiastes 2:14שֶׁמִּקְרֶ֥הshemikrehrelative particle (“who / which”) + noun · masculine singularThe 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.here: that fate
- Ecclesiastes 2:15כְּמִקְרֵ֤הkemikrehpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)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.here: like [the] fate of
- Ecclesiastes 3:19מִקְרֶ֨הmikrehnoun · masculine singularFor 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.here: [the] fate of
- Ecclesiastes 3:19וּמִקְרֶ֣הumikrehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularFor 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.here: and [the] fate of
- Ecclesiastes 3:19וּמִקְרֶ֤הumikrehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularFor 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.here: and fate
- Ecclesiastes 9:2מִקְרֶ֨הmikrehnoun · masculine singularIt 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.here: fate
- Ecclesiastes 9:3מִקְרֶ֥הmikrehnoun · masculine singularThis 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.here: fate