Quranic root
حصد
ḥ · ṣ · d
The root expresses two related but distinct orientations: cutting something, especially harvesting, and making something tight, firm, or compact.
The cutting branch extends from reaping crops to harvested produce, harvest time, and figurative mowing down or destruction. The firmness branch appears in tightly twisted cords, compact armor, sound judgment, settled affairs, and collective strengthening.
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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.
حَصَدَ
ḥaṣada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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 reap or cut seed-produce and plants.
Used in the agricultural construction of harvesting a crop, ordinarily with a reaping tool; the Quranic occurrence is addressed to those who reap a cultivated crop.
- Lane · entry 14685
Selected Quran examples
Quran 12:47word 7
“you reap”
حَصَادٌ
ḥaṣādun
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun / harvest season
- 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.
Harvesting; the time or season of reaping.
The Quranic occurrence is in the temporal expression “the day of its harvest”; حَصَادٌ also functions as the verbal noun of حَصَدَ.
- Lane · entry 14692
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:141word 25
“(of) its harvest”
حَصِيدٌ
ḥaṣīdun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle / substantivized noun
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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.
Reaped produce, especially harvested grain or other food crop.
Used substantivally for what has been reaped; the Quranic grain expression refers to produce from which food is obtained.
- Lane · entry 14694
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:9word 10
“(for) the harvest”
Cut down and left destroyed, as though a crop had been reaped.
A resultative and figurative Quranic use for vegetation, land, communities, or people reduced by destructive cutting; it describes devastation rather than ordinary harvest.
- Lane · entry 14694
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 10:24word 34
“a harvest clean-mown”
Quran 11:100word 9
“and (some) mown”
Quran 21:15word 7
“reaped”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 6:141حَصَادِهِۦ ۖ(of) its harvest
- 10:24حَصِيدًۭاa harvest clean-mown
- 11:100وَحَصِيدٌۭand (some) mown
- 12:47حَصَدتُّمْyou reap
- 21:15حَصِيدًاreaped
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 20 Classical meanings
حَصَدَ
To mow people down with the sword; to slay or exterminate them.
A figurative extension of reaping, applied to people rather than crops.
- Lane · entry 14685
حَصَدَ
To reap a consequence, especially a penalty or regret resulting from one's actions.
Appears in the proverbial construction “who sows evil reaps regret.”
- Lane · entry 14685
حَصِدَ
To become tightly twisted and firmly compact; of a rope, bowstring, or linked armor.
The subject is a cord, bowstring, or coat of mail whose strands or rings are made close and firm.
- Lane · entry 14685
- Lane · entry 14690
- Lane · entry 14691
أَحْصَدَ
Of seed-produce, to reach the proper time for reaping; in a secondary usage, to invite or call for reaping.
A Form IV causative or inchoative harvest-readiness construction, with the latter interpretation reported as an alternative.
- Lane · entry 14686
أَحْصَدَ
To twist a rope firmly; reportedly, to make something firm more generally.
A Form IV firmness construction, distinct from the agricultural readiness sense.
- Lane · entry 14686
اِسْتَحْصَدَ
To become established, settled, sound, or thoroughly firm.
Applied figuratively to an affair or the state of a people.
- Lane · entry 14688
اِسْتَحْصَدَ
For a people or party to collect together, assemble, and give one another mutual aid.
A collective-strengthening use of the Form X verb.
- Lane · entry 14688
اِسْتَحْصَدَ
To become angry, or violently angry.
A lexical Form X emotional-state use.
- Lane · entry 14688
حَصَادٌ، حَصِيدَةٌ
The lower residue of stalks left on the ground after reaping.
Refers to the portions of a crop that the reaping hook does not reach.
- Lane · entry 14692
- Lane · entry 14695
حَصَادٌ
Seeds that fall off and become scattered as wild leguminous plants dry.
A specialized description of dried wild plant seed.
- Lane · entry 14692
حَصَادٌ
The fruit or produce of a tree.
A broader produce-related nominal use, not restricted to grain crops.
- Lane · entry 14692
حَصِيدٌ
Seed-produce torn up and carried away by the wind.
Describes harvested-looking plant matter removed by wind rather than by ordinary reaping.
- Lane · entry 14694
حَصَائِدُ أَلْسِنَتِهِمْ
Words uttered by the tongue against others, especially harmful words with no good in them.
An idiomatic expression likening cutting speech to reaped produce.
- Lane · entry 14694
حَصِيدَةٌ
A field or place of crop whose produce has been reaped; a place of reaping.
Can refer either to the crop-bearing place or specifically to a field completely harvested.
- Lane · entry 14695
حَاصِدٌ
A reaper.
An active participle naming the person who reaps.
- Lane · entry 14696
أَحْصَدُ، حَصْدَاءُ
Of a tree, abundant in leaves and therefore compact or dense.
An adjectival use describing a tree's thick foliage.
- Lane · entry 14697
مُحْصَدُ الرَّأْيِ، رَأْيٌ مُسْتَحْصِدٌ
Sound, firmly directed, and well-grounded judgment or opinion.
A figurative firmness construction applied to reasoning or opinion.
- Lane · entry 14698
- Lane · entry 14702
مُحْصَدٌ
Seed-produce that has dried while still standing.
Describes a crop drying in place rather than after being cut.
- Lane · entry 14698
مُحْصِدٌ
Seed-produce that has reached the proper time or season for reaping.
An active participial description of crop maturity for harvest.
- Lane · entry 14699
مِحْصَدٌ
A reaping hook used to cut seed-produce.
An instrument noun synonymous with a sickle.
- Lane · entry 14700
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
حَصِيدٌ has both a literal harvested-produce sense and a Quran-attested resultative sense meaning cut down or destroyed; the latter is not merely an English gloss variation.
حَصَادٌ and حَصِيدٌ are retained as separate public forms because the former denotes harvesting or harvest time, while the latter denotes the reaped result or something mown down.