מִקְרֶה
miqreh · mik-reh'
something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune
Lexicon
Derivation: from H7136 (קָרָה);
something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מִקְרֶה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 8 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- event3 · 30%
- befalleth2 · 20%
- and her hap1 · 10%
- us: it was a chance1 · 10%
- something hath befallen1 · 10%
- as it happeneth1 · 10%
- for that which befalleth1 · 10%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.