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Happen


HAP'PEN, verb intransitive hap'n.

1. To come by chance; to come without one's previous expectation; to fall out.

There shall no evil happen to the just. Proverbs 12:21.

2. To come; to befall.

They talked together of all those things which had happened. Luke 24:14.

3. To light; to fall or come unexpectedly.

I have happened on some other accounts relating to mortalities.