mikre · chance, what happens

What it means

mikre (מִקְרֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “chance, what happens”.

What happens to someone without his planning it; chance, lot.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What falls to one without seeking it: one's lot or what happens by chance.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fate ×7
• accident ×2
• chance ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• Ecclesiastes×7

• Ruth 2:3

  So she went, came, and gleaned in the field behind the reapers; and her chance happened to be the plot of the field belonging to Boaz, who was of the clan of Elimelech.

• 1 Samuel 6:9

  And watch: if it goes up by the road to its own territory, to Beth-shemesh, then he has done us this great harm; but if not, then we will know that it was not his hand that struck us; it was an accident that happened to us.”

• 1 Samuel 20:26

  But Saul did not say anything on that day, for he said, “It is an accident; he is not clean; surely he is not clean.”

• Ecclesiastes 2:14

  The wise man — his eyes are in his head, and the senseless walks in darkness; and I knew too that one fate will befall them all.

• Ecclesiastes 2:15

  And I said in my heart, “As the fate of the senseless, so it will befall me too; and why then have I been overly wise?” And I said in my heart that this too was vapor.

• Ecclesiastes 3:19

  For the fate of human beings and the fate of the beast — one fate is theirs: as this one dies, so that one dies, and one breath is for all, and the advantage of the human being over the beast is nothing, for all is vapor.

• Ecclesiastes 9:2

  All is as for all: one fate for the righteous and for the wicked, for the good and for the clean and for the unclean, and for the one who sacrifices and for the one who does not sacrifice; as is the good, so is the sinner; the one who swears as is the one who fears an oath.

• Ecclesiastes 9:3

  This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all; and also the heart of human beings is full of evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and afterward they go to the dead.

And 2 more times.