How many times Luck used in Bible?

Answer 1

The Bible does not metion luck by the modern word. The American Heritage Dictionary defines "luck" as follows:

1. The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events. 2. Good fortune or prosperity; success....to gain success or something desirable by chance: 'I lucked out in finding that rare book.'

The main question is, do things happen by chance? If they do, then one can speak of someone being lucky or unlucky. But if they do not happen by chance, then it is inappropriate to use those terms. Ecclesiastes 9:11-12 states, "I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Moreover, no man knows when his hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so men are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them." Much of what Ecclesiastes shares is from the perspective of a person who looks at life on earth without God, or life "under the sun." From such a perspective-leaving God out of the picture-there seems to be good luck and bad luck.