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ح ر ث Root ḥ-r-th in the Qur’an 14 occurrences in 11 verses

Occurrences
14
Verses
11
Surahs
7 of 114
Words
2

Most Arabic words are built from a root of three letters, and words from one root share a core meaning. In the Qur’an, the root ح ر ث (ḥ-r-th) gives 2 words. It appears most in Al-Baqarah (4), Ash-Shura (3), Ali 'Imran (2).

Words from this root

Meanings are the most common word-by-word translations of each word in the Qur’an.

WordTypeTimesTranslated as
حَرْثnoun13crops, harvest, field
تَحْرُثُverb1you sow

حَرْث 13 times

  • 2:71 · Al-Baqarahٱلْحَرْثَ the fieldHe said, "He says, 'It is a cow neither trained to plow the earth nor to irrigate the field, one free from fault with no spot upon her.' " They said, "Now you have come with the truth." So they slaughtered her, but they could hardly do it.
  • 2:205 · Al-Baqarahٱلْحَرْثَ the cropsAnd when he goes away, he strives throughout the land to cause corruption therein and destroy crops and animals. And Allah does not like corruption.
  • 2:223 · Al-Baqarahحَرْثٌۭ (are) a tilthYour wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish and put forth [righteousness] for yourselves. And fear Allah and know that you will meet Him. And give good tidings to the believers.
  • 2:223 · Al-Baqarahحَرْثَكُمْ (to) your tilthYour wives are a place of sowing of seed for you, so come to your place of cultivation however you wish and put forth [righteousness] for yourselves. And fear Allah and know that you will meet Him. And give good tidings to the believers.
  • 3:14 · Ali 'Imranوَٱلْحَرْثِ ۗ and [the] tilled landBeautified for people is the love of that which they desire - of women and sons, heaped-up sums of gold and silver, fine branded horses, and cattle and tilled land. That is the enjoyment of worldly life, but Allah has with Him the best return.
  • 3:117 · Ali 'Imranحَرْثَ (the) harvestThe example of what they spend in this worldly life is like that of a wind containing frost which strikes the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves and destroys it. And Allah has not wronged them, but they wrong themselves.
  • 6:136 · Al-An'amٱلْحَرْثِ the cropsAnd the polytheists assign to Allah from that which He created of crops and livestock a share and say, "This is for Allah," by their claim, "and this is for our partners [associated with Him]." But what is for their "partners" does not reach Allah, while what is for Allah - this reaches their "partners." Evil is that which they rule.
  • 6:138 · Al-An'amوَحَرْثٌ and cropsAnd they say, "These animals and crops are forbidden; no one may eat from them except whom we will," by their claim. And there are those [camels] whose backs are forbidden [by them] and those upon which the name of Allah is not mentioned - [all of this] an invention of untruth about Him. He will punish them for what they were inventing.
  • 21:78 · Al-Anbyaٱلْحَرْثِ the fieldAnd [mention] David and Solomon, when they judged concerning the field - when the sheep of a people overran it [at night], and We were witness to their judgement.
  • 42:20 · Ash-Shuraحَرْثَ (the) harvestWhoever desires the harvest of the Hereafter - We increase for him in his harvest. And whoever desires the harvest of this world - We give him thereof, but there is not for him in the Hereafter any share.
  • 42:20 · Ash-Shuraحَرْثِهِۦ ۖ his harvestWhoever desires the harvest of the Hereafter - We increase for him in his harvest. And whoever desires the harvest of this world - We give him thereof, but there is not for him in the Hereafter any share.
  • 42:20 · Ash-Shuraحَرْثَ (the) harvestWhoever desires the harvest of the Hereafter - We increase for him in his harvest. And whoever desires the harvest of this world - We give him thereof, but there is not for him in the Hereafter any share.
  • 68:22 · Al-Qalamحَرْثِكُمْ your crop[Saying], "Go early to your crop if you would cut the fruit."

تَحْرُثُ 1 time

How we count

Each Qur’an word whose stem comes from this root counts once. Attached prefixes and pronouns, such as wa- (and) or al- (the), are not counted separately. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. Verse translation: Saheeh International.

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