1) to meet, encounter, approach, be opportune
1a) (Piel) to allow to meet, cause to meet
1b) (Pual) to be sent, be allowed to meet
1c) (Hithpael) to seek occasion (quarrel), cause oneself to meet
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
a primitive root (perhaps rather identical with H578 (אָנָה) through the idea of contraction in anguish); to approach; hence, to meet in various senses
KJV glosses: befall, deliver, happen, seek a quarrel.
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How translators render H579
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a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different
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BSB rendering counts
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allowed it to happen
1
befalls
1
is seeking a quarrel
1
will befall
1
KJV rendering counts
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befall
1
deliver
1
happen
1
how he seeketh a quarrel
1
Verses containing H579
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When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
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