هَابَ fear in Arabic
هَابَ is how you say “fear” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
هِبْتُمُ النَّاسَ وَلَمْ تَهَابُونِي،
You feared people and did not fear Me,
هِبْتُمُ you feared
A past-tense verb with a plural 'you' subject in its ending, 'you feared / held in awe'. The plural lives in the verb itself, no separate pronoun needed.
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More example sentences
هِبْتُمُ النَّاسَ وَلَمْ تَهَابُونِي،
You feared people and did not fear Me,
تَهَابُونِي fear Me
A present-shaped verb pulled into the past and chopped into its jussive ending by the 'did not' before it, with a plural 'you' subject and 'Me' attached as object: 'you feared Me'. The trimmed ending marks the negation trigger.
وَإِذَا أَرَادَ يَكْثُرَ بِهِ الْكُنُوزُ هَابَ مِنْ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ
And if he intended to increase his treasures by it, he feared everything.
هَابَ he feared
A past-tense verb 'he feared', forming the consequence side of the condition. It delivers the 'then...' result that the 'if' clause leads to.
فَمَنْ اِعْتَادَ الصَّبْرَ هَابَهُ عَدُوُّهُ
So whoever becomes accustomed to patience, his enemy fears him.
هَابَهُ feared him
A past-tense verb 'feared / held in awe' with the object ending '-hu' (him) attached, so it means 'fears him'. It is the result clause, with its subject named next.