Home Quran Quran roots ح ر ث
14 times in the Quran · 2 word forms · rank 470
The Quran root ح ر ث ḥ-r-th
Words built from the root ح ر ث ([ḥ-r-th]) appear 14 times in the Quran. The most common is حَرْث, “harvest”, which comes 13 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| حَرْث | ḥarth | harvest · crops | 13 | |
| تَحْرُثُ | taḥruthu | you sow | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
قَالَ إِنَّهُ يَقُولُ إِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌ لَّا ذَلُولٌ تُثِيرُ الْأَرْضَ وَلَا تَسْقِي الْحَرْثَ مُسَلَّمَةٌ لَّا شِيَةَ فِيهَا قَالُوا الْآنَ جِئْتَ بِالْحَقِّ فَذَبَحُوهَا وَمَا كَادُوا يَفْعَلُونَ ٧١
الْحَرْثَ l-ḥartha · the field
He 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. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:71)
وَإِذَا تَوَلَّىٰ سَعَىٰ فِي الْأَرْضِ لِيُفْسِدَ فِيهَا وَيُهْلِكَ الْحَرْثَ وَالنَّسْلَ وَاللَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَسَادَ ٢٠٥
الْحَرْثَ l-ḥartha · the crops
And when he goes away, he strives throughout the land to cause corruption therein and destroy crops and animals. And Allāh does not like corruption. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:205)
أَفَرَأَيْتُم مَّا تَحْرُثُونَ ٦٣
تَحْرُثُونَ taḥruthūna · you sow
And have you seen that [seed] which you sow? (Surah Al-Waqi'ah, 56:63)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-Baqarah · 4×
- Surah Ash-Shuraa · 3×
- Surah Ali 'Imran · 2×
- Surah Al-An'am · 2×
- Surah Al-Anbya · 1×
- Surah Al-Qalam · 1×
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.
