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Hebrew verb · H7136

קָרָה

qarahkaw-raw'

to meet; to lay beams

27 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: qârâh

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7136is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 14 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 24
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7136

to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)

The King James renders it: appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.

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

qarah is rendered "to meet; to lay beams". It stands 27 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "to meet".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 24:12“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty-four different ways.

The first use

“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Genesis 24:12הַקְרֵה־

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in fourteen of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 25 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: to meet, and to lay beams.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
to meetStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereGenesis 24:12“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today…
to lay beamsStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he met2
  • it had happened to him2
  • they made beams for it2
  • ¿ will it happen to you1
  • and it chanced on1
  • and it will happen to him1
  • and to make beams for1
  • and you will make happen1
  • he has met1
  • he made happen1
  • he will meet1
  • I found myself1

and 12 more, 27 uses in all

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.

קָרָאqarato call: call toUses733
קָרָאqarato encounter: meetUses139
קָרָהqarahcoldUses5

Other numbers on this spelling

Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.

All 27, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

24 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

  • יִקְרֶ֥ה2
  • קָרָ֑הוּ2
  • קֵר֔וּהוּ2
  • אִקָּ֥רֶה1
  • הֲיִקְרְךָ֥1
  • הַ֥מְקָרֶֽה1
  • הִקְרָ֛ה1
  • הַקְרֵה־1
  • הַקֹּרֹ֥ת1
  • וְהִקְרִיתֶ֤ם1
  • וַיִּ֣קֶר1
  • וַיִּקָּ֥ר1

and 12 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqi3ms
  • Hc/VNw3ms2Hc/VNw3ms
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HVpp3cp/Sp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqp3ms/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HC/R/Vpcc
  • Hc/Vhq2mp1Hc/Vhq2mp
  • Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp3ms1Hc/Vqq3ms/Sp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
  • preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vpcc
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singular1HTd/Vprmsa
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine plural1HTd/Vqrfpa
  • question particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HTi/Vqi3ms/Sp2ms

Genesis

four uses
  • “O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

    Genesis 24:12

    • הַקְרֵה־hakreh-verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: make happen
  • But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

    Genesis 27:20

    • הִקְרָ֛הhikrahverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made happen
  • When they reached their father Jacob in the land of Canaan, they described to him all that had happened to them:

    Genesis 42:29

    • הַקֹּרֹ֥תhakorotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the had happened to
  • Now if you also take this one from me and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.’

    Genesis 44:29

    • וְקָרָ֣הוּvekarahuHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and it will happen to him

Exodus

one use
  • The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

    Exodus 3:18

    • נִקְרָ֣הnikrahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has met

Numbers

six uses
  • The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”

    Numbers 11:23

    • הֲיִקְרְךָ֥hayikrechaquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: ¿ will it happen to you
  • “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone,” Balaam said to Balak. “Perhaps the LORD will meet with me. And whatever He reveals to me, I will tell you.” So Balaam went off to a barren height,

    Numbers 23:3

    • יִקָּרֵ֤הyikarehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will meet
  • and God met with him. “I have set up seven altars,” Balaam said, “and on each altar I have offered a bull and a ram.”

    Numbers 23:4

    • וַיִּקָּ֥רvaiyikarHc/VNw3mstagged: and he met
  • Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here beside your burnt offering while I meet the LORD over there.”

    Numbers 23:15

    • אִקָּ֥רֶהʾikarehverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will meet
  • And the LORD met with Balaam and put a message in his mouth, saying, “Return to Balak and speak what I tell you.”

    Numbers 23:16

    • וַיִּקָּ֤רvaiyikarHc/VNw3mstagged: and he met
  • designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

    Numbers 35:11

    • וְהִקְרִיתֶ֤םvehikritemHc/Vhq2mptagged: and you will make happen

Deuteronomy

one use
  • how they met you on your journey when you were tired and weary, and they attacked all your stragglers; they had no fear of God.

    Deuteronomy 25:18

    • קָֽרְךָ֜karechaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it met you

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.

    Ruth 2:3

    • וַיִּ֣קֶרvaiyikerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it chanced on

1 Samuel

one use
  • Then Saul swore to her by the LORD: “As surely as the LORD lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this.”

    1 Samuel 28:10

    • יִקְּרֵ֥ךְyikerekhverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: it will happen to you

2 Samuel

one use
  • “I happened to be on Mount Gilboa,” he replied, “and there was Saul, leaning on his spear, with the chariots and the cavalry closing in on him.

    2 Samuel 1:6

    • נִקְרֵ֙יתִי֙nikreitiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I found myself

2 Chronicles

one use
  • They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to buy dressed stone, as well as timbers for couplings and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to deteriorate.

    2 Chronicles 34:11

    • וּלְקָרוֹת֙ulekarotconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to make beams for

Nehemiah

three uses
  • And may I have a letter to Asaph, keeper of the king’s forest, so that he will give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I will occupy.” And because the gracious hand of my God was upon me, the king granted my requests.

    Nehemiah 2:8

    • לְ֠קָרוֹתlekarotpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make beams for
  • The Fish Gate was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah. They laid its beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

    Nehemiah 3:3

    • קֵר֔וּהוּkeruhuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they made beams for it
  • The Jeshanah Gate was repaired by Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah. They laid its beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

    Nehemiah 3:6

    • קֵר֔וּהוּkeruhuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they made beams for it

Esther

two uses
  • and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

    Esther 4:7

    • קָרָ֑הוּkarahuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had happened to him
  • Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”

    Esther 6:13

    • קָרָ֑הוּkarahuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had happened to him

Psalms

one use
  • laying the beams of His chambers in the waters above, making the clouds His chariot, walking on the wings of the wind.

    Psalms 104:3

    • הַ֥מְקָרֶֽהhamkarehthe definite article (“the”) + verb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine singulartagged: the makes beams for

Ecclesiastes

three 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.

    Ecclesiastes 2:14

    • יִקְרֶ֥הyikrehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will happen to
  • 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 2:15

    • יִקְרֵ֔נִיyikreniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: it will happen to me
  • I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.

    Ecclesiastes 9:11

    • יִקְרֶ֥הyikrehverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it happens to

Isaiah

one use
  • “Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.

    Isaiah 41:22

    • תִּקְרֶ֑ינָהtikreinahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will happen

Daniel

one use
  • Now I have come to explain to you what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision concerns those days.”

    Daniel 10:14

    • יִקְרָ֥הyikrahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will happen

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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