- קְרֵי
- קְרֵיII ch. sam(קרי, קרהto meet), to join. Ithpe. אִיקְּרֵי to do something by accident; to happen. Snh.33a, א׳ ועבד כחדוכ׳ if he happened to act in accordance with the opinion of one of them, when the common usage agrees with the other. Keth.26a אִיקְּרוּ ויהבו ליה accidentally they gave it to him.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.