Occurrent (Hastings' Dictionary)

In 1 K δ’ (eb. 18) the Heb. word yi pega’ (which is elsewhere found only in Ec 9" and is rendered in EV ‘chance’) is translated in AV ‘occurrent’; ‘there is neither adversary nor evil occurrent’ (37 y35). RV retains ‘occurrent,’ but Amer. RV prefers ‘occurrence,’ which is the modern form. The LXX tr. is ἁμάρτημα πονηρόν, the Vulg. (supposed to have suggested the Eng.) occursus malus; Wyclif (1382) has ‘yvel agencomynge,’ 1388 ‘yvel asailyng’; Cov. ‘evell hynderaunce’; Gen.

‘evil to resiste,’ followed by the Bishops; Don. ‘il rencounter. The form ‘occurrent’ was used both as an adj and as a subst. As an adj. we find it in Hooker, Ecel. Pol. v. 78, ‘After gifts of education there follow general abilities to work things above nature, grace to cure men of bodily diseases, supplies against occurrent defects and impedi- ments.’ As a subst. it is found in Shaks. (Hamlet, y. ii. 341), who also twice uses ‘occurrence’ (7. Night, v. i. 264, Henry V. Vv. Prol. 40). Cf.

also Chapman, Widow's Tears, iii. 1, ‘These are strange occurrents, brother, but pretty and pathetical’ ; Bacon, Henry VII. (Pitt Press ed. p. 68), ‘He paid the king large tribute of his gratitude in iligent advertisement of the occurrents of Italy.’ Beaumont and Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, i. 1— ‘My five years’ absence hath kept me stranger So much to all the occurrents of country.’ ὦ. HASTINGS. OCHIELUS (B ᾿Οχίηλος, A ’Ofindos, AV Ochiel), 1 Es 1°=Jeiel, 2 Ch 35°.