Quranic root
حذر
ḥ · dh · r
The root centers on guarding oneself through alertness, caution, and vigilance against feared harm.
From this basic orientation develop meanings of fearing, taking precautions, being prepared, warning others, and designating a feared thing or danger.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حَذِرَ
ḥadhira
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 12 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 beware of, guard against, or take precautions against a danger, person, thing, or event.
Used transitively and also with مِنْ or عَلَيْهِ; Quranic imperatives express the command to beware.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 63:4word 18
“so beware of them”
To fear or be apprehensive of something.
The feared object may be an anticipated matter or consequence; the Quranic use includes fearing the Hereafter.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 39:9word 8
“fearing”
حَذَّرَ
ḥadhdhara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
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To warn or caution someone against a thing, person, or event; to make someone fear it.
The verb may take the person warned and the feared matter as objects, or may be used with مِنْ for the matter against which someone is warned.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:28word 22
“And warns you”
حَذَرٌ
ḥadharun
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
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Caution or fear expressed as guarding against something feared.
A verbal noun or simple substantive; context may foreground fear, vigilance, or guardedness.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:19word 15
“(in) fear (of)”
حَاذِرٌ
ḥādhirun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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Being on guard, prepared, or fully equipped against danger.
The Quranic plural in 26:56 occurs in a context of military preparedness and may convey being equipped with arms.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:56word 3
“forewarned”
حِذْرٌ
ḥidhrun
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
Precautionary readiness or the means of guarding against danger, including protective equipment or weapons.
In the Quranic construction خُذُوا حِذْرَكُمْ, it denotes taking or using one's precautions.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:71word 5
“your precautions”
مَحْذُورٌ
maḥdhūrun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
A thing feared or regarded as an object of fear.
A passive participle used substantivally for a feared matter or outcome.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 17:57word 18
“(ever) feared”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:19حَذَرَ(in) fear (of)
- 2:235فَٱحْذَرُوهُ ۚso beware of Him
- 2:243حَذَرَ(in) fear
- 3:28وَيُحَذِّرُكُمُAnd warns you
- 3:30وَيُحَذِّرُكُمُAnd warns you
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 15 Classical meanings
حَاذَرَ
To be mutually cautious or fearful; for each of two parties to be on guard against the other.
A reciprocal Form III construction.
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احدارّ
To become angry or enraged, draw oneself together, and prepare to do mischief.
A rare derived usage.
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ابْنُ أَحْذَارٍ
A person of resolve or determination combined with caution and wariness.
Used in the idiomatic expression ابن أحذار.
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أَبُو حَذَرٍ
The male chameleon.
A specialized animal name.
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حَذِرٌ
Cautious, wary, vigilant, careful, or fearful.
An adjectival description of a person; the form may also convey being in a state of preparation.
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حَذُرٌ
Very fearful and cautious, wary, or vigilant.
An adjectival variant with an intensified sense of fear or caution.
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حِذْرِيَةٌ
Rugged or rough ground; a hard, level summit or rugged hill.
A topographical noun.
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حِذْرِيَةٌ
The feathers at the back of a cock's neck.
A specialized anatomical noun.
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الحُذُرَّى
What is false, vain, or ineffectual.
Synonymous with الباطل.
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حَذَارِ
Beware; be cautious, wary, or on one's guard.
An imperative verbal noun, also used with an object of caution and with the vocative suffix in حَذَارِكَ.
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حَذِيرٌ
A cautioner or one who warns another against a person or thing.
A rare noun for a person who gives a warning.
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حُذَارِيَاتٌ
Persons who make others fear; warners or cautioners.
The term is explained both causatively and as a designation for warners.
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أَحْذَرُ
More or most cautious, wary, vigilant, careful, or fearful.
A comparative or superlative adjective.
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مَحْذُورَةٌ
A calamity or circumstance feared or regarded with caution.
A feminine noun for something apprehended as harmful or dangerous.
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مَحْذُورَةٌ
A hostile troop's attack or incursion, or war.
Lexicographical explanations also relate the term to a sudden cry or attack and to punishment; the precise application is variable.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied QAC form is حَاذِرُونَ at 26:56; the reported alternative reading حَذِرُونَ is not treated as a separate QAC form group.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The alternative reading حَذِرُونَ reported for 26:56 is preserved as a reading variant but cannot be assigned to a separate public form because no corresponding QAC form group was supplied.