hakĩgĩa

v.

1. there came to be. There came to be, there appeared. An existential/locative verb form indicating that something came into existence or appeared at a particular place or time.

Example: o nginya hakĩgĩa mũthamaki ũngĩ wa gũthamaka Misiri ũrĩa ũtoĩ ũhoro wa Jusufu. (until another king who knew nothing of Joseph came to power [in Egypt]. Ex 1:8.); na thutha wa gĩthingithia kĩu gũkĩoneka mwaki; no rĩrĩ, Jehova ndaarĩ mwaki-inĩ ũcio; na thutha wa mwaki ũcio hakĩgĩa kamũgambo gaceke kahoreru. (after the earthquake, fire—but the L ord was not in the fire; after the fire, a light silent sound. Compare these divine manifestations to Elijah with those to Moses on the same mountain (Ex 19:16–19; 33:18–23; 34:5–6; Dt 4:10–15). Though various phenomena, such as wind, storms, earthquakes, fire, accompany the divine presence, they do not constitute the presence itself which, like the “silent sound,” is mysterious and ultimately ungraspable. Moses and Elijah, the two figures who experienced God’s theophany on this mountain, reappear with Jesus on another mountain at his transfiguration (Mt 17:1–9; Mk 9:2–9; Lk 9:28–36).)