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Strong's #7136: qarah (pronounced kaw-raw')

a primitive root; to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor):--appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

qârâh

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

2) to build with beams

2a) (Piel) to lay the beams of, furnish with beams

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 2068, 2068e



Usage:

This word is used 27 times:

Genesis 24:12: "of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and show kindness"
Genesis 27:20: "Because the LORD thy God brought it to"
Genesis 42:29: "and told him all that befell unto them; saying,"
Genesis 44:29: "from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs"
Exodus 3:18: "him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee,"
Numbers 11:23: "thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not."
Numbers 23:3: "and I will go: peradventure the LORD will come to meet me: and whatsoever he showeth"
Numbers 23:4: "And God met Balaam: and he said unto him, I have prepared"
Numbers 23:15: "by thy burnt offering, while I meet the LORD yonder."
Numbers 23:16: "And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said,"
Numbers 35:11: " Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither,"
Deuteronomy 25:18: "How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou"
Ruth 2:3: "after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz, who"
1 Samuel 28:10: "liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing."
2 Samuel 1:6: "And the young man that told him said, As I happened by chance upon mount Gilboa, behold,"
2 Chronicles 34:11: "stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings"
Nehemiah 2:8: "that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which"
Nehemiah 3:3: "of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars"
Nehemiah 3:6: "the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars"
Esther 4:7: "him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that"
Esther 6:13: "every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife"
Psalms 104:3: " Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon"
Ecclesiastes 2:14: "perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."
Ecclesiastes 2:15: "in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then"
Ecclesiastes 9:11: "but time and chance happeneth to them all."
Isaiah 41:22: "and show us what shall happen: let them show the former things, what they"
Daniel 10:14: "to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days: for"









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