حَاقَ بِهِ
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, aorist يَحِيقُ, (S, K,) verbal noun حَيْقٌ and حُيُوقٌ and حَيَقَانٌ, (K,) It surrounded, encompassed, encircled, or beset, him, or it; (S, K;) only used in relation to evil; (Bd in xvi. 36;) [as also حاق به, aorist يَحُوقُ, inf. حَوْقٌ;] and so به
احاق. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) So in the Qur'an, 35:41, وَلَا يَحِيقُ المَكْرُ السَّيِّيءُ إِلَّا بِأَهْلِهِ [And evil artifice shall not beset any save the authors thereof]: (S:) or this means shall not befall: (Msb:) [for] حاق به, (Ibn-'Arafeh, Msb, K, *) aorist as above, (Msb, TA,) verbal noun حَيْقٌ and حَاقٌ, (TA,) signifies [also] it clave to him, and became his due, (Ibn-'Arafeh, K,) and befell him: (Ibn- 'Arafeh, Msb, K,) and thus it is said to mean in the Qur'an, 11:11, &c.], وَحَاقَ بِهِمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ
يَسْتَهْزِيءُونَ [And that at which they used to mock shall cleave to them, or be their due, or befall them; namely, the punishment at which they mocked.] (TA.) You say also, حاق بِهِمُ العَذَابُ
Punishment beset them, and befell them. (S.) And حاق بِهِ البَلَاءُ
Trial, or trouble, beset him. (TA in article حق.)