جَاعَ became hungry in Arabic
جَاعَ is how you say “became hungry” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ولو أن إنسانًا جاع فلم يأكل، أو احتاج فلم يسأل، أو عري فلم يلبس، فمات دخل النار،
And if a person goes hungry and does not eat, or is in need and does not ask, or is unclothed and does not dress, and dies, he enters the Fire,
جَاعَ goes hungry
This past-tense verb has its 'he' subject built in and states the supposed condition, 'went hungry'. It supplies the first link in the chain of imagined neglect.
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من جاع فلم يسأل حتى مات دخل النار
Whoever goes hungry and does not ask until he dies, enters the Fire.
جَاعَ goes hungry
A past-tense verb forming the condition after 'whoever'. In this rule-setting frame the past tense reads as a timeless 'should anyone go hungry', not a one-off finished event, which is how Arabic states general conditions.