Accident
מִקְרֶהStrong’s H4745miqreh (miq-reh)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Miqreh is the Hebrew word usually translated “fate”, “chance her” and “chance”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the kindred of Elimelech.”
Meaning
- Unforeseen meeting or event, accident, happening, chance, fortuneaccident, chance · fortune, fate
How it's translated
- fate 2
- chance her 1
- chance 1
- an accident 1
- that fate 1
- like fate of 1
- fate of 1
- and fate of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 5
- 1 Samuel 2
- Ruth 1
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 6:9And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that happened to us.
- 1 Samuel 20:26Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.
- Ecclesiastes 2:14The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
- Ecclesiastes 2:15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 9:2All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
Hebrew dictionary
מִקְרֶה miqreh · accident
1) unforeseen meeting or event, accident, happening, chance, fortune 1a) accident, chance 1b) fortune, fate
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “accident” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AC'CIDENT, noun
[Latin accidens, falling, from ad and cado, to fall. See Case and Cadence. Class Gd.]
- A coming or falling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an event which proceeds from an unknown cause, or is an unusual effect of a known cause, and therefore not expected; chance; casualty; contingency.
- That which takes place or begins to exist without an efficient intelligent cause and without design.
- In logic, a property, or quality of a being which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper.
- In grammar, something belonging to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, inflection.
All definitions
- In heraldry, a point or mark, not essential to a coat of arms.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.