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title: מִקְרֶה — accident · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִקְרֶה (4745), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 10 times: accident. BDB 1906: n.m. accident, chance, fortune. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִקְרֶה

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«מִקְרֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **accident** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 10 times · **Key:** 4745 · **BDB:** מִקְרֶה²

### Glosses

fate (4); the.fate (3); chance (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

accident [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4745/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. accident, chance, fortune [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4745/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. 1 S 6:9 accident, chance, fortune;—abs. מ׳ 1 S 6:9 +; cstr. מִקְרֵה Ec 2:15 (so read also 3:19(×2) with 𝔊 RuëtKau Wild, for MT מִקְרֶה);— accident, chance, 1 S 6:9; 20:26; c. קָרָה Ru 2:3 (v. ק׳ 1). in Ec, fortune, fate, מ׳ אֶחָד יִקְרֶה אֶת־כֻּלָּם Ec 2:14 cf. v 15, 3:19(×3); 9:2, 3.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִקְרֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4745/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Samuel 20:26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.20.26/)

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וְלֹֽא־דִבֶּ֥ר שָׁא֛וּל מְא֖וּמָה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא כִּ֤י אָמַר֙ מִקְרֶ֣ה ה֔וּא בִּלְתִּ֥י טָה֛וֹר ה֖וּא כִּֽי־לֹ֥א טָהֽוֹר׃ס

*Word for word:* and not he.spoke Saul anything on the day (the) that (dm) he.said \[is\].chance it not \[is\].clean he (dm) not clean

*JPS 1917:* Nevertheless Saul spoke not any thing that day; for he thought: 'Something hath befallen him, he is unclean; surely he is not clean.'

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[Ruth 2:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/RUT.2.3/)

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וַתֵּ֤לֶךְ וַתָּבוֹא֙ וַתְּלַקֵּ֣ט בַּשָּׂדֶ֔ה אַחֲרֵ֖י הַקֹּצְרִ֑ים וַיִּ֣קֶר מִקְרֶ֔הָ חֶלְקַ֤ת הַשָּׂדֶה֙ לְבֹ֔עַז אֲשֶׁ֖ר מִמִּשְׁפַּ֥חַת אֱלִימֶֽלֶךְ׃

*Word for word:* and she.went and she.came and she.gleaned in the field behind the harvesters and it.chanced.on chance her the.portion of the.field of Boaz who \[was\].from the.clan of.Elimelech

*JPS 1917:* And she went, and came and gleaned in the field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on the portion of the field belonging unto Boaz, who was of the family of Elimelech.

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