Quranic root
حضض
ḥ · ḍ · ḍ
The root has two established semantic axes: impelling someone toward an action and a low or depressed resting place.
The urging sense is associated in the lexical tradition with pressing toward al-ḥaḍīḍ, the low ground; the two branches remain distinct in the verb حَضَّ and the noun حَضِيضٌ. A traditional comparison distinguishes حَضٌّ from حَثٌّ by not making travel or driving its primary domain, although other lexical testimony allows broader use.
- Maqāyīs · row 1382
- Mufradāt · row 333
- Lane · entry 14792
- Lane · entry 14797
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- Quran-attested forms
- 2
- Quran senses
- 3
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
حَضَّ
ḥaḍḍa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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 urge, incite, encourage, or press someone toward an action.
In the supplied Quranic occurrences, it is construed with عَلَى and concerns urging the feeding of the poor or needy. The contextual sense is strong encouragement or urgent incitement, with “command” representing an intensified rendering rather than a separate lexical sense.
- Lane · entry 14792
- Mufradāt · row 333
Selected Quran examples
Quran 69:34word 2
“feel the urge”
تَحَاضَّ
taḥāḍḍa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VI
- Form
- VI
- 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.
To urge one another or mutually encourage one another to act.
This is a reciprocal construction: each party urges the other. In the supplied Quranic occurrence, the mutual urging concerns feeding the poor or needy. A separately reported Form III reading of the same Quranic passage expresses the corresponding mutual-urging relation but is not a separate supplied QAC form group.
- Lane · entry 14795
- Lane · entry 14794
Selected Quran examples
Quran 89:18word 2
“you feel the urge”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 3 occurrencesBroader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 1 Classical meanings
حَضِيضٌ
Low or depressed ground, especially the lower area at or near the foot of a mountain; also the ground simply, in an absolute use.
A noun denoting a low tract, a depression, or the lowest part of a stretch of land. The lexical evidence also records plural forms.
- Lane · entry 14797
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied contextual English gloss “feel the urge” is not used as a standalone lexical definition; the direct lexical evidence supports urging or encouraging someone or one another.
A separately reported Form III reading occurs in the Quranic passage discussed by the lexical evidence; it is not counted as an additional QAC occurrence.
The historical Quran citation notation in the lexical evidence is not converted into a modern verse location; 89:18 is used because that location is independently supplied by QAC.