קָרָה
qârâh · kaw-raw'
to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
- to light upon (chiefly by accident)
- causatively, to bring about
- specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.
Letters
- 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)
what comes behind, the returning cycle › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
What comes behind, the returning cycle of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of קָרָה 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
27 occurrences · 27 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- met2 · 7%
- happeneth2 · 7%
- good speed1 · 4%
- brought1 · 4%
- him all that befell1 · 4%
- befall him1 · 4%
- hath met1 · 4%
- shall come to pass1 · 4%
- will come1 · 4%
- while i meet1 · 4%
- then ye shall appoint1 · 4%
- how he met1 · 4%
- was to light1 · 4%
- happen1 · 4%
- as i happened1 · 4%
- and to floor1 · 4%
- to make beams1 · 4%
- who also laid the beams1 · 4%
- they laid the beams1 · 4%
- him of all that had happened1 · 4%
- every thing that had befallen1 · 4%
- who layeth the beams1 · 4%
- so it happeneth1 · 4%
- us what shall happen1 · 4%
- what shall befall1 · 4%
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.