kara · happen, meet

What it means

kara (קָרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “happen, meet”.

Happen, come upon someone; in the causative form, make happen ("grant me success"). In another sense, lay the beams of a building.

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. For an event to come upon someone without his seeking it.
2. To come to meet someone, as YHWH does with his people.
3. To fit a building's roof or floors with wooden beams.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• met ×4
• befall ×3
• had happened to him ×2
• happened to be ×2
• laid its beams ×2
• will come ×2
• will happen ×2
• befalls him ×1
• had happened ×1
• made it happen ×1
• others ×7

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×6
• Deuteronomy×1
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Esther×2
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Isaiah×1
• Daniel×1

• Genesis 24:12

  And he said, “YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, please make it happen before me today, and show loyal love to my lord Abraham.

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because YHWH your Elohim made it happen before me.”

• Genesis 42:29

  They came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying,

• Genesis 44:29

  If you take this one also from me and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hair in misery to Sheol.’

• Exodus 3:18

  They will listen to your voice; and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘YHWH, the Elohim of the Hebrews, has met with us. And now, please let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim.’

• Numbers 11:23

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Is YHWH’s hand too short? Now you shall see whether my word will come true for you or not.”

• Numbers 23:3

  And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps YHWH will come to meet me, and whatever word he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height.

• Numbers 23:4

  And Elohim met Balaam, and he said to him, “The seven altars I have set in order, and I have offered a bull and a ram on each altar.”

• Numbers 23:15

  And he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet him there.”

• Numbers 23:16

  And YHWH met Balaam and put a word in his mouth and said, “Return to Balak, and thus you shall speak.”

• Numbers 35:11

  you shall select for yourselves cities; they shall be cities of refuge for you, and the manslayer who strikes down a person inadvertently may flee there.

• Deuteronomy 25:18

  how he met you on the way and cut off at your rear all the stragglers behind you, when you were weary and worn out; and he did not fear Elohim.

• 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 28:10

  Saul swore to her by YHWH, saying, “As YHWH lives, no guilt shall come upon you for this matter.”

• 2 Samuel 1:6

  The young man who was reporting it to him said, “By chance I happened to be on Mount Gilboa, and look, Saul was leaning on his spear; and look, the chariots and the horsemen were following him closely.

• 2 Chronicles 34:11

  They gave it to the craftsmen and to the builders, to buy quarried stones and timber for the clamps, and to provide beams for the houses that the kings of Judah had destroyed.

• Nehemiah 2:8

  and a letter to Asaph, keeper of the park that belongs to the king, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress that belongs to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I will go into.” And the king granted it to me, according to the good hand of my Elohim upon me.

• Nehemiah 3:3

  And the Fish Gate the sons of Senaah built; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:6

  And the Old Gate Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired; they laid its beams and set up its doors, its locks, and its bars.

• Esther 4:7

  And Mordecai made known to him all that had happened to him, and the sum of the silver that Haman had said he would weigh out to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to make them perish.

• Esther 6:13

  And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and to all his friends all that had happened to him; and his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the offspring of the Jews, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

• Psalms 104:3

  who lays the beams of his upper rooms on the waters, who makes the clouds his chariot, who walks on the wings of the wind,

• 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 9:11

  I turned and saw under the sun that not to the swift is the race, nor to the mighty men the war, nor even to the wise bread, nor even to the discerning riches, nor even to those who know favor, for time and occurrence befall them all.

• Isaiah 41:22

  Let them bring them forward and declare to us what will happen; the former things, what they were, declare, that we may set our heart on them and know their end; or the things to come make us hear.

• Daniel 10:14

  And I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people at the end of the days, for the vision is yet for those days.”