حُفِظَ preserved in Arabic
حُفِظَ is how you say “preserved” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
ثم نبه بقوله ﴿إِنَّهُ عَلَى رَجْعِهِ لَقَادِرٌ﴾ على بعثه لجزائه على العمل الذي حفظ وأحصى عليه
Then He emphasized by saying, 'Indeed, He is Able to bring him back,' referring to His ability to resurrect him for recompense for the deeds that were preserved and accounted for.
حُفِظَ were preserved
This is a past-tense passive verb, 'was kept' or 'preserved', where the keeper is unstated. Arabic marks the passive by reshaping the inner vowels alone, with no helper word, keeping the focus on the deeds rather than the recorder.
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More example sentences
فَحُفِظَ مِنَ الْغَرْقِ وَسُلِمَ مِنَ الطُّوفَانِ
So it was preserved from drowning and saved from the flood.
فَحُفِظَ so it was preserved
The front 'fa-' chains this onto the previous events as the next result ('and so'). The verb itself is the PASSIVE of 'preserve': inner-vowel reshaping, not a helper word, marks that the ark/house UNDERWENT preserving rather than doing it, and its doer is left unnamed.