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Chance

(Luke 10:31). "It was not by chance that the priest came down by that road at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact fulfilment of a plan; This unified study connects 6 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H7137, H4745, H6294, G4795, G5177
Hebrew
קָרֶה · qâreh
Greek
συγκυρία · synkyría

Strong’s and original-language information

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

קָרֶה

H7137
Transliteration
qâreh
Pronunciation
kaw-reh'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

chance, accident, uncleanness that chanceth.

Lexicon definition

an (unfortunate) occurrence, i.e. some accidental (ceremonial) disqualification

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

מִקְרֶה

H4745
Transliteration
miqreh
Pronunciation
mik-reh'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
10

Glosses

something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).

Lexicon definition

something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

פֶּגַע

H6294
Transliteration
pegaʻ
Pronunciation
peh'-gah
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
2

Glosses

chance, occurent.

Lexicon definition

impact (casual)

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

συγκυρία

G4795
Transliteration
synkyría
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
1

Glosses

chance

Lexicon definition

from the base of G2962 (κύριος))

concurrence, i.e. accident

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

τυγχάνω

G5177
Transliteration
tynchánō
Language
Greek
Indexed occurrences
12

Glosses

be, chance, enjoy, little, obtain, X refresh…self, + special

Lexicon definition

akin to the base of G5088 (τίκτω) through the idea of effecting

properly, to affect

or (specially), to hit or light upon (as a mark to be reached), i.e. (transitively) to attain or secure an object or end, or (intransitively) to happen (as if meeting with)

but in the latter application only impersonal (with G1487 (εἰ)), i.e. perchance

or (present participle) as adjective, usual (as if commonly met with, with G3756 (οὐ), extraordinary), neuter (as adverb) perhaps

or (with another verb) as adverb, by accident (as it were)

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

מִקְרֶה

H4745
Transliteration
miqreh
Pronunciation
mik-reh'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
10

Glosses

accident, chance, fortune, something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).

Lexicon definition

something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune

Complete dictionary entries

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Chance

(Luke 10:31). "It was not by chance that the priest came down by that road at that time, but by a specific arrangement and in exact fulfilment of a plan; not the plan of the priest, nor the plan of the wounded traveller, but the plan of God. By coincidence (Gr. sungkuria) the priest came down, that is, by the conjunction of two things, in fact, which were previously constituted a pair in the providence of God. In the result they fell together according to the omniscient Designer's plan. This is the true theory of the divine government." Compare the meeting of Philip with the Ethiopian (Acts 8:26, 27). There is no "chance" in God's empire. "Chance" is only another word for our want of knowledge as to the way in which one event falls in with another (1 Sam. 6:9; Eccl. 9:11).

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Chance

Indexed occurrences: 3

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