Quranic root
حشر
ḥ · sh · r
The root centers on bringing a group together while driving or bringing it forth.
Its central development joins gathering with movement or compulsion: groups may be assembled toward a place, gathered for resurrection, or driven from an abode. Classical usage also extends to gathering-places, gathered small creatures, and specialized descriptions of fine or thin forms.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حَشَرَ
ḥashara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 37 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To gather or congregate a group, bringing or driving its members together or toward a destination.
The object or implied subject is collective and may be human or nonhuman. Quranic usage includes ordinary assembly, the gathering of creatures, and gathering for resurrection; active and passive voice do not create separate lexical senses.
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Selected Quran examples
حَشْر
ḥashr
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
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Gathering or assembly as an event; especially the gathering associated with resurrection.
In expressions such as يوم الحشر, it denotes the day or event of collective gathering. The noun refers to a group rather than an individual.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:44word 7
“(is) a gathering”
The collective driving out of a group from its abode, including compelled emigration.
In the Quranic expression أول الحشر, the sense concerns the expulsion and departure of a settled population from its place.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 59:2word 12
“gathering”
حَاشِر
ḥāshir
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
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One who gathers or assembles people.
The supplied Quran occurrences are plural and refer to people appointed or acting as gatherers; the public headword is the singular active-participial citation form.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:36word 7
“gatherers”
مَحْشُور
maḥshūr
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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Gathered or assembled together; brought into a collective group.
The supplied Quran occurrence is feminine and describes birds, but the lexical sense is not restricted by gender or species.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 38:19word 2
“assembled”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:203تُحْشَرُونَwill be gathered
- 3:12وَتُحْشَرُونَand you will be gathered
- 3:158تُحْشَرُونَyou will be gathered
- 4:172فَسَيَحْشُرُهُمْthen He will gather them
- 5:96تُحْشَرُونَyou will be gathered
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 13 Classical meanings
حَشْر
Going forth with a people in war, whether fleeing, hastening, or dispersing.
This use occurs when the noun is used absolutely and describes the movement of a group in wartime.
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حَشَرَتِ السَّنَةُ
Of a year of dearth: to drive people and their livestock from the desert toward settled places; consequently, to destroy or severely distress their livestock.
A conventional description of the effects of famine or a barren year.
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حَشَرَ
To make a spearhead or knife thin, slender, sharp, or pointed; to pare and sharpen a stick.
A specialized transitive use applied to implements and shaped objects.
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اِنْحَشَرَ
To become collected together while moving from the desert to settled abodes.
Form VII usage describing people assembling as they move into settled places.
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حَشْر
Thin, slender, fine, elegant, or sharply pointed in form; said of ears, feathers, arrows, spearheads, knives, and similar objects.
The description concerns a finely formed or tapered physical shape and is not limited to one object class.
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الحَاشِر
An epithet for Muhammad, understood as one who gathers people after him and to his religion.
This is a conventional titular application of the agent noun, distinct from its ordinary meaning of a gatherer.
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حَاشِرٌ / حُشَّارٌ
A collector of spoils; in the plural, a collector of tithes and poll-tax.
A specialized administrative or fiscal use of the agent noun.
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مَحْشِرٌ / مَحْشَرٌ
A place of congregation, including a town, country, encampment, or other destination to which people are collected.
By extension, يوم المحشر denotes the day of judgment or the day of the great congregation.
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حَشَرَةٌ / حَشَرَاتٌ
Small animals that creep or move upon the earth, such as jerboas, hedgehogs, and lizards; in some usages, venomous or harmful reptiles such as scorpions and snakes.
The term may be collective or, according to some authorities, a singular with a plural form.
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حَشَرَةٌ
Anything captured, snared, trapped, hunted, or chased, including wild animals, birds, and fish.
This is a broader usage than the designation for small creeping creatures and may include either small or large game.
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حَشَرَةٌ
Edible wild herbs or leguminous plants gathered from the earth.
This interpretation is explicitly reported for the term in a lexical tradition that distinguishes it from the animal-related usage.
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حَشْر
A light-built or nimble man.
An uncommon usage described as divergent from the central root meaning.
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حَشْوَر
A man of large build or a large belly.
A specialized personal description recorded as a lexical derivative of the root.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
In resurrection contexts, translations such as “gathered,” “assembled,” or “raised” can reflect context and voice; the lexical evidence supports the broader notion of collective gathering rather than a separate sense for each rendering.
For 81:5, variant interpretations concerning the fate or raising of wild animals are reported, but they remain within the Quranic gathering usage rather than establishing an additional lexical sense.