To meet
קָרָהStrong’s H7136qarah (qa-rah)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “met”, “made beams for it” and “it had happened to him”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for yet the vision is for many days.”
Meaning
- To encounter, meet, befall, happen, come to meet(Qal) · (Niphal) · (Hiphil) to cause to meet, appoint
- To build with beams(Piel) to lay the beams of, furnish with beams
How it's translated
- and he met 2
- they made beams for it 2
- it had happened to him 2
- make happen 1
- he made happen 1
- the had happened to 1
- and it will happen to him 1
- he has met 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 6
- Genesis 4
- Nehemiah 3
- Ecclesiastes 3
- Esther 2
- Exodus 1
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 24:12And he said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
- Genesis 27:20And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it to me.
- Genesis 42:29And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,
- Genesis 44:29And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- Exodus 3:18And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
- Numbers 11:23And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
Hebrew dictionary
קָרָה qarah · 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 qarah · to lay beams
1) to build with beams 1a) (Piel) to lay the beams of, furnish with beams
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.