Ecclesiastes 2:14
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
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Happeneth
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Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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6 occurrences in 4 verses.
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קָרָה
qârâh · kaw-raw'
3 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
to light upon (chiefly by accident); causatively, to bring about; specifically, to impose timbers (for roof or floor)
Strong's KJV usage: appoint, lay (make) beams, befall, bring, come (to pass unto), floor, (hap) was, happen (unto), meet, send good speed.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 2:14Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 9:11
Open full H7136 profile →נָגַע
nâgaʻ · naw-gah'
2 times translated as this KJV form150 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to touch, i.e. lay the hand upon (for any purpose; euphemistically, to lie with a woman); by implication, to reach (figuratively, to arrive, acquire); violently, to strike (punish, defeat, destroy, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: beat, (× be able to) bring (down), cast, come (nigh), draw near (nigh), get up, happen, join, near, plague, reach (up), smite, strike, touch.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 8:14Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 8:14
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miqreh · mik-reh'
1 times translated as this KJV form10 total Strong's occurrences
something met with, i.e. an accident or fortune
Strong's KJV usage: something befallen, befalleth, chance, event, hap(-peneth).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 2:15Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 2:15
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H7136
The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
H4745
Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
H7136
Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
H5060
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
H5060
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
H7136
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
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happen
HAP'PEN, verb intransitive hap'n.
1. To come by chance; to come without one's previous expectation; to fall out.
There shall no evil happen to the just. Proverbs 12:21.
2. To come; to befall.
They talked together of all those things which had happened. Luke 24:14.
3. To light; to fall or come unexpectedly.
I have happened on some other accounts relating to mortalities.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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