קִרְאָה qirʼâh — an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Translated in the KJV as × against, help, meet, seek, × to, × in the way.
from H7122; an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite).
qirʼâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Infinitive construct 100
And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of Shaveh, which is the king’s dale.
And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.
And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›