kira · to meet

What it means

kira (קִרְאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “to meet”.

Someone, toward; also "opposite".

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. To go out to greet someone who arrives, in order to receive him.
2. To go out to meet an army in order to fight.
3. Facing, on the opposite side of something.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• meet ×87
• against ×11
• met it ×1
• opposite ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×11
• Exodus×7
• Numbers×9
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×5
• Judges×11
• 2 Samuel×12
• 1 Kings×7
• 2 Kings×16
• 1 Chronicles×4
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×3
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 14:17

  After he returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the Valley of the King).

• Genesis 15:10

  He brought him all these and cut them in two down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut in two.

• Genesis 18:2

  He lifted his eyes and looked, and look, three men were standing near him. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of the tent to meet them and bowed down to the ground.

• Genesis 19:1

  The two messengers came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.

• Genesis 24:17

  The servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me sip a little water from your jar.”

• Genesis 24:65

  She said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “He is my lord.” So she took the veil and covered herself.

• Genesis 29:13

  When Laban heard the news of Jacob his sister’s son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. And he told Laban all these things.

• Genesis 30:16

  Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him and said, “To me you must come, for I have surely hired you with the mandrakes of my son.” So he lay with her that night.

• Genesis 32:6

  The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother, to Esau, and he is also coming to meet you, and four hundred men are with him.”

• Genesis 33:4

  But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.

• Genesis 46:29

  Joseph harnessed his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He appeared to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a long time.

• Exodus 4:14

  Then the anger of YHWH burned against Moses, and he said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can surely speak. And look, he is also coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

• Exodus 4:27

  YHWH said to Aaron, “Go to meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met him at the mountain of Elohim and kissed him.

• Exodus 5:20

  They met Moses and Aaron, who were standing to meet them, as they came out from Pharaoh.

• Exodus 7:15

  Go to Pharaoh in the morning; look, he is going out to the water. Station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile, and the staff that was turned into a serpent you shall take in your hand.

• Exodus 14:27

  Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned as morning appeared to its normal flow; and the Egyptians, fleeing, met it; and YHWH shook off the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

• Exodus 18:7

  Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him; they asked each other about their welfare, and they went into the tent.

• Exodus 19:17

  Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet Elohim, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

• Numbers 20:18

  But Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”

• Numbers 20:20

  But he said, “You shall not pass through.” And Edom came out against him with a heavy force and with a strong hand.

• Numbers 21:23

  But Sihon did not let Israel pass through his territory; and Sihon gathered all his people and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.

• Numbers 21:33

  Then they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and Og king of Bashan came out against them, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei.

• Numbers 22:34

  And Balaam said to the angel of YHWH, “I have sinned, for I did not know that you were standing in the road against me. And now, if it is displeasing in your eyes, I will turn back.”

• Numbers 22:36

  When Balak heard that Balaam had come, he went out to meet him at the city of Moab, which is on the border of the Arnon, which is at the edge of the territory.

• 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 24:1

  When Balaam saw that it was good in the eyes of YHWH to bless Israel, he did not go, as at other times, to meet omens, but set his face toward the wilderness.

• Numbers 31:13

  Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the community went out to meet them outside the camp.

• Deuteronomy 1:44

  Then the Amorite who lived in that hill country came out to meet you and chased you as bees do, and crushed you in Seir as far as Hormah.

• Deuteronomy 2:32

  Sihon came out to meet us, he and all his people, for war at Jahaz.

• Deuteronomy 3:1

  Then we turned and went up by the way to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us, he and all his people, for war at Edrei.

• Deuteronomy 29:7

  And you came to this place, and Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to meet us in battle, and we struck them down.

• Joshua 8:5

  And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out to meet us as at the first, we will flee before them.

• Joshua 8:14

  And it came about, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he and all his people, at the appointed time before the Arabah; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

• Joshua 8:22

  And these came out from the city to meet them, so that they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them until no survivor or fugitive was left to them.

• Joshua 9:11

  So our elders and all the inhabitants of our land said to us, ‘Take provision in your hand for the journey and go to meet them, and say to them, “We are your servants; now make a covenant with us.”’

• Joshua 11:20

  For it was from YHWH to make their heart obstinate to meet Israel in battle, in order that he might devote them to destruction, so that there would be no favor for them, but in order that he might destroy them, just as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Judges 4:18

  Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

• Judges 4:22

  And look, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” He went in with her, and there was Sisera, fallen dead, with the peg in his temple.

• Judges 6:35

  He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and it too was summoned after him; and he sent messengers to Asher, to Zebulun, and to Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.

• Judges 7:24

  Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, “Come down to meet Midian and capture ahead of them the waters as far as Beth-barah, and the Jordan.” So all the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and the Jordan.

And 60 more times.