What Does “Came to pass” Mean in the Bible?
To happen. “It came to pass” means “it happened.”
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 17:26; Genesis 26:1
What the Bible says
Luke 17:26
And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
Genesis 26:1
And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Palestines to Gerara.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: RAE, “acaecer”