Quranic root
حصي
ḥ · ṣ · y
The root is oriented toward making something fully determined by number: what is counted is gathered into a total and thereby encompassed.
The lexical discussion connects the usage with counting by means of pebbles. From literal enumeration, the semantic development extends to comprehensive reckoning and, in negative constructions, the inability to fully realize or attain something.
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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.
أَحْصَىٰ
ʾaḥṣāā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 10 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 enumerate, count, or keep a tally of something.
Used when items or a quantity are brought into a numerical reckoning.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:34word 11
“you will (be able to) count them”
To take full account of and encompass something through comprehensive reckoning.
The meaning extends beyond a simple tally to the complete gathering or accounting for all of something.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 72:28word 10
“and He takes account”
To fully realize, attain, or exhaustively accomplish something.
In the Quranic construction لَنْ تُحْصُوهُ, the object is something whose complete measure or realization cannot be fully attained or taken in.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 73:20word 23
“you count it”
أَحْصَىٰ
ʾaḥṣāā
- Part of speech
- Adjective · Elative
- 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.
More exact or more comprehensive in reckoning; best at calculating a measure.
Nominal elative use describing the greater precision of a reckoning, as in calculating a period or span.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:12word 6
“best calculated”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 14:34تُحْصُوهَآ ۗyou will (be able to) count them
- 16:18تُحْصُوهَآ ۗyou could enumerate them
- 18:12أَحْصَىٰbest calculated
- 18:49أَحْصَىٰهَا ۚhas enumerated it
- 19:94أَحْصَىٰهُمْHe has enumerated them
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The two Quranic form groups share the spelling أَحْصَىٰ but are separated here because one is a Form IV verb and the other is a nominal elative use.
The supplied Lane primary entry contains only a cross-reference pointer, so the lexical senses are supported by the unique Quran-focused entry.