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خُبِّئَ was hidden in Arabic

خُبِّئَ is how you say “was hidden” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وعلى عمر مخرج الرسول من دار الخيزران وقد طال ما خبي،

And upon Umar, who led the Prophet out from the house of Al-Khazeran, and indeed what was hidden lasted long.

خُبِّئَ was hidden

This verb is in the passive voice, so its subject is the thing hidden, not whoever hid it. Arabic marks the passive by reshaping the vowels inside the verb rather than adding a helper word, which is why no agent is named and the action simply 'was hidden'.

From The Story of Prophet Joseph

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وَسَهْوُكَ فِي لَهْوِكَ عَمَّا قَدْ خُبِّئَ لَكَ

And your heedless preoccupation in your diversion from what has been stored for you!

خُبِّئَ been stored

This is the passive form of the verb: the thing did not store itself; some unnamed doer stored it. Arabic builds the passive not with a helper like English 'was' but by changing the inner vowels of the verb, which is why it looks close to its active twin yet flips who acts and who receives.

From Vigilance Against Worldly Deception

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