Home Quran Quran roots أ خ ذ
273 times in the Quran · 7 word forms · rank 35
The Quran root أ خ ذ ’-kh-dh
Words built from the root أ خ ذ ([’-kh-dh]) appear 273 times in the Quran. The most common is أَخَذَ, “seized them”, which comes 127 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| أَخَذَ | akhadha | seized them · take | 127 | |
| اتَّخَذَ | attakhadha | Take · you take | 124 | |
| يُؤاخِذُ | yu’khidhu | will take you to task · He takes you to task | 9 | |
| أَخْذ | akhdh | seizure · taking | 6 | |
| آخِذ | aakhidh | take it · has grasp | 3 | |
| مُتَّخِذ | muttakhidh | those who take · ones taking | 3 | |
| اتِّخاذ | attikhaadh | taking | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
وَاتَّقُوا يَوْمًا لَّا تَجْزِي نَفْسٌ عَن نَّفْسٍ شَيْئًا وَلَا يُقْبَلُ مِنْهَا شَفَاعَةٌ وَلَا يُؤْخَذُ مِنْهَا عَدْلٌ وَلَا هُمْ يُنصَرُونَ ٤٨
يُؤْخَذُ yu'khadhu · will be taken
And fear a Day when no soul will suffice for another soul at all, nor will intercession be accepted from it, nor will compensation be taken from it, nor will they be aided. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:48)
وَإِذْ قُلْتُمْ يَا مُوسَىٰ لَن نُّؤْمِنَ لَكَ حَتَّىٰ نَرَى اللَّهَ جَهْرَةً فَأَخَذَتْكُمُ الصَّاعِقَةُ وَأَنتُمْ تَنظُرُونَ ٥٥
فَأَخَذَتْكُمُ fa-akhadhatkumu · So seized you
And [recall] when you said, "O Moses, we will never believe you until we see Allāh outright"; so the thunderbolt took you while you were looking on. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:55)
وَإِذْ وَاعَدْنَا مُوسَىٰ أَرْبَعِينَ لَيْلَةً ثُمَّ اتَّخَذْتُمُ الْعِجْلَ مِن بَعْدِهِ وَأَنتُمْ ظَالِمُونَ ٥١
اتَّخَذْتُمُ ittakhadhtumu · you took
And [recall] when We made an appointment with Moses for forty nights. Then you took [for worship] the calf after him [i.e., his departure], while you were wrongdoers. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:51)
لَّا يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ اللَّهُ بِاللَّغْوِ فِي أَيْمَانِكُمْ وَلَٰكِن يُؤَاخِذُكُم بِمَا كَسَبَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْ وَاللَّهُ غَفُورٌ حَلِيمٌ ٢٢٥
يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ yuākhidhukumu · will take you to task
Allāh does not impose blame upon you for what is unintentional in your oaths, but He imposes blame upon you for what your hearts have earned. And Allāh is Forgiving and Forbearing. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:225)
وَأَخْذِهِمُ الرِّبَا وَقَدْ نُهُوا عَنْهُ وَأَكْلِهِمْ أَمْوَالَ النَّاسِ بِالْبَاطِلِ وَأَعْتَدْنَا لِلْكَافِرِينَ مِنْهُمْ عَذَابًا أَلِيمًا ١٦١
وَأَخْذِهِمُ wa-akhdhihimu · And for their taking
And [for] their taking of usury while they had been forbidden from it, and their consuming of the people's wealth unjustly. And We have prepared for the disbelievers among them a painful punishment. (Surah An-Nisa, 4:161)
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنفِقُوا مِن طَيِّبَاتِ مَا كَسَبْتُمْ وَمِمَّا أَخْرَجْنَا لَكُم مِّنَ الْأَرْضِ وَلَا تَيَمَّمُوا الْخَبِيثَ مِنْهُ تُنفِقُونَ وَلَسْتُم بِآخِذِيهِ إِلَّا أَن تُغْمِضُوا فِيهِ وَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّ اللَّهَ غَنِيٌّ حَمِيدٌ ٢٦٧
بِآخِذِيهِ biākhidhīhi · take it
O you who have believed, spend from the good things which you have earned and from that which We have produced for you from the earth. And do not aim toward the defective therefrom, spending [from that] while you would not take it [yourself] except with closed eyes. And know that Allāh is Free of need and Praiseworthy. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:267)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-A'raf · 29×
- Surah Al-Baqarah · 25×
- Surah An-Nisa · 23×
- Surah Al-Kahf · 15×
- Surah Al-Ma'idah · 13×
- Surah At-Tawbah · 10×
Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.