Hap

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( n.) A cloak or plaid.

(2): ( v. i.) To happen; to befall; to chance.

(3): ( v. t.) To clothe; to wrap.

(4): ( n.) That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot.

King James Dictionary [2]

Hap, n. L. capio.

1. That which comes suddenly or unexpectedly chance fortune accident casual event. See Chance and Casual.

Whether art it was or heedless hap.

Curs'd by good haps,and curs'd be they that build

Their hopes on haps.

2. Misfortune. But this word is obsolete or obsolescent, except in compounds and derivatives.

Hap, To happen to befall to come by chance.

Morrish Bible Dictionary [3]

'Happen;' if it should so happen; it happened to Ruth that she gleaned in the field of Boaz.  Ruth 2:3 .

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