Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4745
מִקְרֶה
miqrehmik-reh'
accident
10 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4745is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4745
something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune
The King James renders it: something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
miqreh is rendered "accident". It stands 10 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ruth 2:3So 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.
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
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.
Ruth 2:3מִקְרֶ֔הָ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's ten uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- fate2
- an accident1
- and fate1
- and fate of1
- chance1
- chance her1
- fate of1
- like fate of1
- that fate1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מִקְנֶה | miqneh | livestock | Uses76 |
| מִקְדָּשׁ | miqdash | sanctuary | Uses75 |
| מִקְרָא | miqra | assembly | Uses23 |
| מִקְלָט | miqlat | refuge | Uses20 |
| מִקְנָה | miqnah | purchase | Uses15 |
| מִקְשָׁה | miqshah | beating | Uses9 |
| מִקְלַעַת | miqlaath | engraving | Uses4 |
| מִקְסָם | miqsam | divination | Uses2 |
| מִקְשָׁה | miqshah | cucumber field | Uses2 |
| מִקְטֶרֶת | miqtereth | censer | Uses2 |
| מִקְוָה | miqvah | reservoir | Uses1 |
| מִקְטָר | miqtar | fumigation | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
All 10, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מִקְרֶ֥ה2
- מִקְרֶ֨ה2
- וּמִקְרֶ֣ה1
- וּמִקְרֶ֤ה1
- כְּמִקְרֵ֤ה1
- מִקְרֶ֣ה1
- מִקְרֶ֔הָ1
- שֶׁמִּקְרֶ֥ה1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular2HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- relative particle (“who / which”) + noun · masculine singular1HTr/Ncmsa
Ruth
one use
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.
- מִקְרֶ֔הָmikrehanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: chance her
1 Samuel
two uses
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.”
- מִקְרֶ֥הmikrehnoun · masculine singulartagged: chance
Saul said nothing that day because he thought, “Something has happened to David to make him ceremonially unclean—surely he is unclean.”
- מִקְרֶ֣הmikrehnoun · masculine singulartagged: an accident
Ecclesiastes
seven uses
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.
- שֶׁמִּקְרֶ֥הshemikrehrelative particle (“who / which”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: that fate
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.
- כְּמִקְרֵ֤הkemikrehpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like fate of
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.
- מִקְרֶ֨הmikrehnoun · masculine singulartagged: fate of
- וּמִקְרֶ֣הumikrehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and fate of
- וּמִקְרֶ֤הumikrehconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and fate
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.
- מִקְרֶ֨הmikrehnoun · masculine singulartagged: fate
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.
- מִקְרֶ֥הmikrehnoun · masculine singulartagged: fate
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.