What HAPPENS to someone — an occurrence, a lot, a fate, from qarah, to befall. It carries no implication of design, which is why Ecclesiastes reaches for it: 3:19 says the miqreh of man and the miqreh of the beast is ONE miqreh. 1 Samuel 6:9 uses it of pure chance ('it was not his hand that struck us; it was a miqreh'), and Ruth 2:3 of a coincidence that turns out not to be one. ⭐ Its CAUSATIVE is what appoints the cities of refuge: Numbers 35:11’s ve-hiqritem, a form found in that one verse alone, tells Israel to make an accident happen on purpose — for people to whom an accident will happen. ⚠ Deuteronomy 23:11 (already on these pages) uses the noun as a euphemism: a soldier who is not clean from what happens at night, miqreh-laylah, leaves the camp until sundown — the emission of Leviticus 15:16, unnamed. 1 Samuel 20:26 (not yet on these pages) shows the same law being applied by a king: Saul says nothing about David's empty seat at the new moon because miqreh hu, something has happened to him, he is not clean. → first discussed at Ecclesiastes 3:19