'Happen' in the Bible
to do as much as your power and your plan had decided beforehand would happen.
But Simon replied, "You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me."
When Peter came to himself, he said, "Now I know for certain that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herod and from everything the Jewish people were expecting to happen."
Watch out, then, that what is spoken about by the prophets does not happen to you:
And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem without knowing what will happen to me there,
I have experienced help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said was going to happen:
But they were expecting that he was going to swell up or suddenly drop dead. So after they had waited a long time and had seen nothing unusual happen to him, they changed their minds and said he was a god.
Bible Theasaurus
- Appear (157 instances)
- Arise (256 instances)
- Arrive (57 instances)
- Befall (25 instances)
- Chance (89 instances)
- Encounter (23 instances)
- Ensue (2 instances)
- Eventually (56 instances)
- Fall (586 instances)
- Find (583 instances)
- Hap (1 instance)
- Happen (374 instances)
- Issue (89 instances)
- Materialize (1 instance)
- Occur (33 instances)
- Pass (1244 instances)