Accident
קָרֶהStrong’s H7137qareh (qa-reh)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Qareh is the Hebrew word usually translated “from a happening of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:”
Meaning
- Chance, accidentof nocturnal pollution requiring temporary exodus from camp
How it's translated
- from a happening of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
קָרֶה qareh · accident
1) chance, accident 1a) of nocturnal pollution requiring temporary exodus from camp
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.