קָרָאqârâʼ
קָרָא: encounter, befall
Pronunciation: kaw-raw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7122
Meanings
Qal
1. meet, encounter (Isaiah 7:3; Genesis 19:1; Genesis 24:17)
2. befall, bad sense (Genesis 42:4; Genesis 42:38; Deuteronomy 31:29)
Niph`al: meet unexpectedly (Exodus 5:3; 2 Samuel 18:9; 2 Samuel 20:1)
Hiph`il: cause, to befall (Jeremiah 32:23)
קְרַאת: to meet, see II. קדא. p. 896.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 138 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 14:17 After Abram returned from his victory over Kedorlaomer and all his allies, the king of Sodom went out to meet him in the valley of Shaveh (that is, the King’s Valley).
- Genesis 15:10 So Abram presented all these to him and killed them. Then he cut each animal down the middle and laid the halves side by side; he did not, however, cut the birds in half.
- Genesis 18:2 He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground.
- Genesis 19:1 That evening the two angels came to the entrance of the city of Sodom. Lot was sitting there, and when he saw them, he stood up to meet them. Then he welcomed them and bowed with his face to the ground.
- Genesis 24:17 Running over to her, the servant said, “Please give me a little drink of water from your jug.”
- Genesis 24:65 “Who is that man walking through the fields to meet us?” she asked the servant. And he replied, “It is my master.” So Rebekah covered her face with her veil.
See every passage
- Genesis 14:17, 15:10, 18:2, 19:1, 24:17, 24:65, 29:13, 30:16, 32:6, 33:4, 42:4, 42:38, 46:29, 49:1
- Exodus 1:10, 4:14, 4:27, 5:3, 5:20, 7:15, 14:27, 18:7, 19:17
- Leviticus 10:19
- Numbers 20:18, 20:20, 21:23, 21:33, 22:34, 22:36, 23:3, 24:1, 31:13
- Deuteronomy 1:44, 2:32, 3:1, 22:6, 29:7, 31:29
- Joshua 8:5, 8:14, 8:22, 9:11, 11:20
- Judges 4:18, 4:22, 6:35, 7:24, 11:31, 11:34, 14:5, 15:14, 19:3, 20:25, 20:31
- 1 Samuel 4:1, 4:2, 9:14, 10:10, 13:10, 15:12, 16:4, 17:2, 17:21, 17:48, 17:55, 18:6, 21:1, 23:28, 25:20, 25:32, 25:34, 30:21
- 2 Samuel 1:6, 6:20, 10:5, 10:9, 10:10, 10:17, 15:32, 16:1, 18:6, 18:9, 19:15, 19:16, 19:20, 19:24, 19:25, 20:1
- 1 Kings 2:8, 2:19, 18:7, 18:16, 20:27, 21:18
- 2 Kings 1:3, 1:6, 1:7, 2:15, 4:26, 4:31, 5:21, 5:26, 8:8, 8:9, 9:17, 9:18, 9:21, 10:15, 16:10, 23:29
- 1 Chronicles 19:5, 19:10, 19:11, 19:17
- 2 Chronicles 35:20
- Job 4:14, 39:21
- Psalms 35:3, 59:4
- Proverbs 7:10, 7:15, 27:16
- Isaiah 7:3, 14:9, 21:14, 51:19
- Jeremiah 13:22, 32:23, 41:6, 44:23, 51:31
- Amos 4:12
- Zechariah 2:3
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).