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, aorist جَبَاَ , He restrained, or withheld, himself; refrained, forbore, or abstained; or turned back, or reverted. (K, TA.) You say, جَبَأَ عَنْهُ, and جَبِيءَ, meaning He restrained, or withheld, himself, &c., from him, or it; and regarded him, or it, with reverence, veneration, dread, awe, or fear: (TA:) [or,] according to AZ, جَبَأْتُ عَنِ الرَّجُلِ, verbal noun جَبْءٌ and جُبُوْءٌ, [to which Golius adds جُبُوءٌ and جِبَاءٌ, but, I suspect, from incorrect MSS.,] means I drew, or held, or hung, back from the man; or remained behind him; or shrank from him; or shrank from him and hid myself: and he cites (from Nuseyb Ibn-Mihjen, TA)

فَهَلْ أَنَ إِلَّ مِثْلُ سَيِّقَةِ العِدَى

إِنِ اسْتَقْدَمَتْ نَحْرٌ وَإِنْ جَبَأَتْ عَقْرٌ

[And am I otherwise than like the beasts driven away by the enemy? If they go before, slaughter befalls them; and if they remain behind, hocking]. (S, TA.) You say also, مَا جَبَأَ عَنْ شَتْمِى He did not draw back from reviling me; did not desist, or abstain, therefrom. (TA.)

It (a sword) recoiled, or reverted, without penetrating, or without effect: (K:) or so the former verb [only]. (TA.)

It (the sight, or the eye,) recoiled, or reverted: (K:) or so the former verb [only]; and disliked, or disapproved, or hated, the thing [that was before it]. (TA.) You say, جَبَأَتْ عَيْنِى عَنِ الشَّىْءِ My eye recoiled, or reverted, from the thing. (S.) And of a woman of displeasing aspect you say, إِنَّ العَيْنِ لَتَجْبَأُ عَنْهَا [Verily the eye recoils from her with dislike]. (As, TA.)

He disliked, disapproved, or hated: (K:) or so the former verb [only]. (TA.) You say, جَبَأَ الشَّىْءَ He disliked, &c., the thing. (TA.)

He inclined his neck: (K:) or so the former verb [only]. (TA.)

He hid himself; (K, TA;) [apparently from fear;] as, for instance, a ضَبّ [q. v.] in its hole. (TA.)

He, or it, came, or went, forth, or out: (K:) [or so the former verb only.] You say of a serpent, جَبَأَ عَلَيْهِ It came forth upon him from its hole (S, TA) so as to frighten him; and in like manner one says of a hyena, and a ضَبّ, and a jerboa. (TA.) And جَبَأَ عَلَى القَوْمِ He came forth unexpectedly upon the people, or company of men. (TA.) And جَبَأَ الجَرَادُ The locusts invaded, or came suddenly upon, the country. (TA.)