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title: קָרֶה — chance · The Tanakh dictionary
description: קָרֶה (7137), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: chance. BDB 1906: chance, accident. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# קָרֶה

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«קָרֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **chance** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7137 · **BDB:** קָרֶה

### Glosses

a.happening (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

chance [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7137/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

chance, accident [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7137/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] chance, accident;—cstr. מִקְרֵה לַיְלָה Dt 23:11 by reason of the chance of the night (i.e. nocturnal pollution, cf. Lv 15:16).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «קָרֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7137/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 23:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.23.11/)

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כִּֽי־יִהְיֶ֤ה בְךָ֙ אִ֔ישׁ אֲשֶׁ֛ר לֹא־יִהְיֶ֥ה טָה֖וֹר מִקְּרֵה־לָ֑יְלָה וְיָצָא֙ אֶל־מִח֣וּץ לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔ה לֹ֥א יָבֹ֖א אֶל־תּ֥וֹךְ הַֽמַּחֲנֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.will.be among you a.man who not he.will.be clean from a.happening of.night and he.will.go.out to from.\[the\] outside of the camp not he.will.come into the.middle of the.camp

*JPS 1917:* If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of that which chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp.

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