لَحِقَتْbefall in Arabic

Example sentences

• وَلَكِنَّ لَامَهُ لِأَجَلِ الْمُصِيبَةِ الَّتِي لَحِقَتْهُمْ بِالْخَطِيَّةِ

  But he reproached him for the calamity that had befallen them because of the sin.

  لَحِقَتْهُمْ — befell them. A past-tense verb with a 'them' tag attached as its object — the calamity 'reached them'. The verb also wears a feminine marker agreeing with its hidden subject, the calamity, while the suffix supplies the people it struck.

  From: Patience Under Decree →