# H7125 קִרְאָה

קִרְאָה (qirʼâh), Strong’s H7125: an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite) KJV: [idiom] against (he come), help, meet, seek, [idiom] to, [idiom] in the way…

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*qirʼâh* — an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)

KJV: [idiom] against (he come), help, meet, seek, [idiom] to, [idiom] in the way.

Derived from [קָרָא qârâʼ](https://besorah.bible/word/H7122) (to encounter)

Occurs 100 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [קָרָא] 137 vb. encounter, befall
- Qal 131
- 1 meet, encounter
- 2 fig. befall
- Niph. meet unexpectedly
- Hiph. thou didst cause all this evil to befall them

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 14:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=17) — The king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with…
- [Genesis 15:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/15?v=10) — He brought him all these, and divided them in the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but he didn’t divide…
- [Genesis 18:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=2) — He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood near him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the…
- [Genesis 19:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=1) — The two angels came to Sodom at evening. Lot sat in the gate of Sodom. Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them. He bowed…
- [Genesis 24:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=17) — The servant ran to meet her, and said, “Please give me a drink, a little water from your pitcher.”
- [Genesis 24:65](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=65) — She said to the servant, “Who is the man who is walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “It is my master.”…
- [Genesis 29:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/29?v=13) — When Laban heard the news of Jacob, his sister’s son, he ran to meet Jacob, and embraced him, and kissed him, and…
- [Genesis 30:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=16) — Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, “You must come in to me; for I have…
- [Genesis 32:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/32?v=7) — The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, “We came to your brother Esau. He is coming to meet you, and four hundred men…
- [Genesis 33:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/33?v=4) — Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.