Strong's Definition
to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.
TWOT Reference: 2068,e
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
קָרָה (qa.rah) — to meet. 1) to encounter, meet, befall, happen, come to meet 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to encounter, meet 1a2) to befall 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to encounter, meet (without pre-arrangement) 1b2) to chance to be present 1b3) to come to meet 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to meet, appoint
קָרָה (qa.rah) — to lay beams. 1) to build with beams 1a) (Piel) to lay the beams of, furnish with beams
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מִקְרֶה · מְקָרֶה · קָרֶה · קְרִי · קִרְיָה
Happen | verb qal
to happen, to take place, to befall = process by which a certain event happens to someone, often without apparent cause or reason
GEN 42:29 · GEN 44:29 · NUM 11:23 · DEU 25:18 · 1SA 28:10 · EST 4:7 · EST 6:13 · ECC 2:14 · ECC 2:15 · ECC 9:11 · ISA 41:22 · DAN 10:14
Meet | verb nif
to manifest oneself, to show oneself, to meet up with literally: (a deity) happens (to someone); hence: = process by which humans have a spiritual encounter with a deity
Space | verb qal, verb nif
Collocation: מִקְרֶה קרה
to find oneself (somewhere) literally: destiny happens; hence: = process by which humans find themselves in a certain place without having had the intention to go there
Think | verb hif
to choose, to designate = action by which humans make a selection among several options
verb · קֹורָה
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[קָרָה] vb. encounter, meet, befall Qal encounter, meet
befall
Niph. encounter, meet without pre-arrangement
chance to be present
Hiph. of י׳, cause (the right thing, good fortune) to occur
of Israel, ye shall (cause cities to occur rightly for yourselves, i.e.) select cities as suitable.
base
[קָרָה] vb. denom. Pi. lay the beams of, furnish with beams base