English example sentences with "befallen"

Alas, what ill luck has befallen me!

A dire tragedy has befallen me.

And they came to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan, and they told him all things that had befallen them, saying: The lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us to be spies of the country.

Go and gather together the ancients of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared to me, saying: Visiting I have visited you; and I have seen all that hath befallen you in Egypt.

And when he was come into the tent, Moses told his kinsman all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh, and the Egyptians in favour of Israel: and all the labour which had befallen them in the journey, and that the Lord had delivered them.

A heavy-set woman with metal-rimmed glasses speaks quietly about the disaster that has befallen her.

Enumerate what hasn't befallen me.

Each person felt a personal connection to the tragedy that had befallen them.