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קָרָה
qârâh · Hebrew · Strong's H7136 · 27 occurrences
The KJV renders 33 different Hebrew and Greek words as “come”
What it means
to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
a primitive root;
How the KJV renders it
appoint, lay beams, befall, bring, come, floor, was, happen, meet, send good speed
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“come”
also renders enístēmi (G1764), katérchomai (G2718), anabaínō (G305), paragínomai (G3854), phthánō (G5348), diérchomai (G1330), apérchomai (G565), páreimi (G3918), gínomai (G1096), érchomai (G2064), synérchomai (G4905), chōréō (G5562), akoúō (G191), symplēróō (G4845), katantáō (G2658), parérchomai (G3928), phérō (G5342), prosérchomai (G4334), epiporeúomai (G1975), deûte (G1205), deûro (G1204), epibaínō (G1910), hḗkō (G2240), dârak (H1869), hûwk (H1946), hâlak (H1980), hâphak (H2015), zâkar (H2142), yâlad (H3205), mᵉṭâʼ (H4291), nâthan (H5414), çᵉliq (H5559)
“bring”
also renders epiphérō (G2018), eisphérō (G1533), hístēmi (G2476), lambánō (G2983), poiéō (G4160), apophérō (G667), érchomai (G2064), ágō (G71), phérō (G5342), komízō (G2865), paréchō (G3930), proságō (G4317), apágō (G520), ʼâthâh (H857), ʼâthâh (H858), bâsar (H1319), gâlâh (H1540), yâbal (H2986), yᵉbal (H2987), yâhab (H3051), nâdach (H5080), çûwr (H5493), râkab (H7392), râʻaʻ (H7489), shîyth (H7896), shâphath (H8239)
“appoint”
also renders hístēmi (G2476), poiéō (G4160), títhēmi (G5087), syntássō (G4929), diatíthemai (G1303), diatássō (G1299), anadeíknymi (G322), kathístēmi (G2525), tássō (G5021), bâchar (H977), dâbar (H1696), zâman (H2163), yâdaʻ (H3045), yâkach (H3198), yâçad (H3245), nâqab (H5344), nâthan (H5414), ʻâsâh (H6213), pâqad (H6485), tsâvâh (H6680), qûwm (H6966), shîyth (H7896)
“meet”
“befall”
“floor”
also renders hálōn (G257)
“was”
also renders eimí (G1510)
Answers that weigh this word
Where it appears
27 occurrences in the Hebrew text.
1 Samuel 28:10 · HVqi3ms/Sp2fs
Saul swore to her by Yahweh, saying, “As Yahweh lives, no punishment will happen to you for this thing.”
2 Chronicles 34:11 · HC/R/Vpc
They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.
2 Samuel 1:6 · HVNp1cs
The young man who told him said, “As I happened by chance on Mount Gilboa, behold, Saul was leaning on his spear; and behold, the chariots and the horsemen followed close behind him.
Daniel 10:14 · HVqi3ms
Now I have come to make you understand what will happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision is yet for many days.”
Deuteronomy 25:18 · HVqp3ms/Sp2ms
how he met you by the way, and struck the rearmost of you, all who were feeble behind you, when you were faint and weary; and he didn’t fear God.
Ecclesiastes 2:14 · HVqi3ms
The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.
Ecclesiastes 2:15 HVqi3ms/Sp1csEcclesiastes 9:11 HVqi3msEsther 4:7 HVqp3ms/Sp3msEsther 6:13 HVqp3ms/Sp3msExodus 3:18 HVNp3msGenesis 24:12 HVhv2msGenesis 27:20 HVhp3msGenesis 42:29 HTd/VqrfpaGenesis 44:29 HC/Vqq3ms/Sp3msIsaiah 41:22 HVqi3fpNehemiah 2:8 HR/VpcNehemiah 3:3 HVpp3cp/Sp3msNehemiah 3:6 HVpp3cp/Sp3msNumbers 11:23 HTi/Vqi3ms/Sp2msNumbers 23:3 HVNi3msNumbers 23:4 HC/VNw3msNumbers 23:15 HVNi1csNumbers 23:16 HC/VNw3msNumbers 35:11 HC/Vhq2mpPsalm 104:3 HTd/VprmsaRuth 2:3 HC/Vqw3ms
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