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# מִקְרֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4745

**accident** — used 10 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

accident [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4745/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִקְרֶה²: n.m. accident, chance, fortune [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4745/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 6:9 accident, chance, fortune;—abs. מ׳ 1 S 6:9 +; cstr. מִקְרֵה Ec 2:15 (so read also 3:19(×2) with 𝔊 RuëtKau Wild, for MT מִקְרֶה);— accident, chance, 1 S 6:9; 20:26; c. קָרָה Ru 2:3 (v. ק׳ 1). in Ec, fortune, fate, מ׳ אֶחָד יִקְרֶה אֶת־כֻּלָּם Ec 2:14 cf. v 15, 3:19(×3); 9:2, 3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fate (4); the fate (3); chance (2).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 20:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.26/#tree)

וְלֹֽא־דִבֶּ֥ר שָׁא֛וּל מְא֖וּמָה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא כִּ֤י אָמַר֙ מִקְרֶ֣ה ה֔וּא בִּלְתִּ֥י טָה֛וֹר ה֖וּא כִּֽי־לֹ֥א טָהֽוֹר׃ס

*Word for word:* and not he.spoke Saul anything on the day (the) that (dm) he.said \[is\].chance it not \[is\].clean he (dm) not clean

*JPS 1917:* Nevertheless Saul spoke not any thing that day; for he thought: 'Something hath befallen him, he is unclean; surely he is not clean.'

[Ruth 2:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.3/#tree)

וַתֵּ֤לֶךְ וַתָּבוֹא֙ וַתְּלַקֵּ֣ט בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה אַחֲרֵ֖י הַקֹּצְרִ֑ים וַיִּ֣קֶר מִקְרֶ֔הָ חֶלְקַ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ לְבֹ֔עַז אֲשֶׁ֖ר מִמִּשְׁפַּ֥חַת אֱלִימֶֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and she.went and she.came and she.gleaned in the field behind the harvesters and it.chanced.on chance her the.portion of the.field of Boaz who \[was\].from the.clan of.Elimelech

*JPS 1917:* And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on the portion of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4745.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4745/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).