Misfortune
נֶ֫כֶרStrong’s H5235nekher (ne-kher)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nekher is the Hebrew word usually translated “misfortune” and “misfortune his”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?”
Meaning
- Calamity, disaster, misfortune
How it's translated
- and misfortune 1
- misfortune his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Obadiah 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Hebrew dictionary
נֶ֫כֶר nekher · misfortune
calamity, disaster, misfortune
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “misfortune” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MISFOR'TUNE, noun
Ill fortune; ill luck; calamity; an evil or cross accident; as loss of property at sea or by fire.
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.