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# befall

«befall» in Mova's school dictionary: **To happen to someone, often something bad: «If you do…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (befall, befalls, befell, befallen) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

To happen to someone, often something bad: «If you do ill, ill will befall you.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/befall/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales, a warning that trouble will come to a person

### examples

- Bad luck befell the farmer's sheep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/befall/#x1)
- Be careful, or harm may befall you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/befall/#x2)
- What will befall us if we stay here? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/befall/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1390/)
- [Shall evil befall a city, and the LORD hath not done it?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/AMO.40/)
- [There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1645/)
- [There shall no mischief befall the righteous; but the wicked are filled with evil.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.342/)
- [And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/EST.109/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «befall» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/befall/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.