קָרֶה
chance
‘chance’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7137 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun קרה centers on the idea of “chance.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. The word gravitates to Deuteronomy (100%). A true hapax — its single appearance is Deuteronomy 23:10. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7137 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Reason of uncleanness that chanceth 1×
- American Standard Version: Reason of that which chanceth 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Emission 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Happening 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7137 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7137 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7137 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7137 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- chance, accident
- of nocturnal pollution requiring temporary exodus from camp
Word origin
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).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קרה (qârâh) (H7136) — to meet.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
קָרָה
- , v. קרי
קָרֶה
- , constr. קְרֵה, v. קַרְיָא I
קרי ⁴
- , Pi. קֵרָה (b. h.)
- 1. (denom. of קוֹרָה, q. v.) to lay beams; to cover.
- 2. (denom. of קִיר I, q. v.) to wall up, close. Ber. 10ᵇ (ref. to II Kings IV, 10) עלייה … וקֵירוּהָ it was an open upper room (a balcony), and they closed it up. M. Kat. I, 4 מְקָרִין את הפירצה וכ׳ you may close up a breach during the festive week. Ib. 7ᵃ כיצד מקרין וכ׳ in what way is it to be done?… With shrubbery or bay-trees. Succ. I, 8 המְקָרֶה סוכתו וכ׳ he who covers his Succah with spits or boards of a bed-side. Lev. R. s. 1 היה מקרה בקורות וכ׳ he covered the building with joists, and wrote the name of the king on them; a. e.—Part. pass. מְקוֹרֶה; f. מְקוֹרָה. Y. Succ. I, 51ᵈ top סוכה מ׳ פסולה a Succah covered with beams is ritually unfit; מבוי מ׳ כשר a covered alley is fit (for Sabbath movements). Y. Naz. IX, 57ᵈ מערה מ׳ a vaulted cave. Sabb. 5ᵃ; a. fr. e.g. 2 Kings 4:10
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H7137, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מקרה miqreh H4745 chance
- מקרה mᵉqâreh H4746 beam work
- קרי qᵉrîy H7147 opposition
- קריה qiryâh H7151 city
- קרת qereth H7176 city
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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