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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Happen

Hap′pen (hăp′p'n), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Happened (-p'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Happening.] [OE. happenen, hapnen. See Hap to happen.] 1. To come by chance; to come without previous expectation; to fall out.

There shall no evil happen to the just. Prov. xii. 21.

2. To take place; to occur.

All these things which had happened. Luke xxiv. 14.

To happen on, to meet with; to fall or light upon. "I have happened on some other accounts." Graunt. — To happen in, to make a casual call. [Colloq.]

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article.