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Gematria of Chance

3 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “chance” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 49 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.

Hebrew equivalents
3
Occurrences
49
Distinct values
3

The 3 Hebrew words rendered “chance”

The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.

קָרָאqârâʼ×37 in the TanakhH7122

to encounter, whether accidentally or in a hostile manner

Standard 301 →Gadol 301Katan 4Siduri (ordinal) 40Atbash 407Perati 50,001Milui 807

First appearance ·Genesis 42:4בראשית מב:דיִקְרָאֶנּוּ

See all 88 occurrences of the spelling קרא →

מִקְרֶהmiqreh×10 in the TanakhH4745

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

Standard 345 →Gadol 345Katan 12Siduri (ordinal) 57Atbash 107Perati 51,625Milui 782

First appearance ·1 Samuel 6:9שמואל א ו:טמִקְרֶה

See all 8 occurrences of the spelling מקרה →

פֶּגַעpegaʻ×2 in the TanakhH6294

impact (casual)

Standard 153 →Gadol 153Katan 18Siduri (ordinal) 36Atbash 213Perati 11,309Milui 294

First appearance ·1 Kings 5:18מלכים א ה:יחפֶּגַע

See all 5 occurrences of the spelling פגע →

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What is the gematria of chance?

The Tanakh renders “chance” with 3 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: קרא = 301, מקרה = 345 and פגע = 153.

How do you say chance in Hebrew?

The Tanakh uses 3 Hebrew words for “chance”; the most frequent are קרא (qârâʼ), 37 times; מקרה (miqreh), 10 times; פגע (pegaʻ), 2 times. Every one is listed on this page.

The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.