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5 تشّبث بِهِ ذ He, or it, clung, caught, clave, or adhered, to it, (S, A, L, Msb, K, * TA,) namely, a thing; (S, L, TA;) as also ↓ شَبِثَ بِهِ , aor. شَبَثَ , inf. n. شَبَثٌ: (L, TA:) or, accord. to Esh-Shiháb, in the Expos. of the Shifè, to a thing in which was weakness: or, accord. to the 'Ináyeh, he, or it, clung, &c., to it with weakness; and therefore ↓ مُتَشَبِّثٌ is used as an epithet applied to a spider; and تَمَسُّكَ signifies a stronger action; and تشبّث به is also expl. as meaning he, or it, took fast, or firm, hold upon it: (L, TA:) and he stuck, or fixed, or struck, the claw, or talons, or nails, into it: (MA, PS:) and الشَّىْءَ ↓ شَبِثَ he laid hold upon the thing, and took it: IAar was asked respecting some verses, and he said, مَا أَدْرِى مِنْ أَيْنَ شَبِثْتُهَا I know not whence I laid hold upon them [and took them]. (L, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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