Quranic root
حقب
ḥ · q · b
The root centers on holding back, confinement, or being retained.
This orientation appears in the retention of rain and urine, in bindings that hold a load in place, and in carrying or accumulating something behind oneself. The temporal branch conceptualizes a long period as an accumulation of years.
- Maqāyīs · row 1414
- Mufradāt · row 347
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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.
حُقْب
ḥuqb
- Part of speech
- Noun
- 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.
A long or extended period of time; in the plural, successive long periods or ages.
The Quran uses the singular in حُقُبًا for an extended span and the plural أَحْقَابًا for successive ages. Lexical reports differ over whether a ḥuqb has a fixed measure, so the Quranic usage does not require one exact number of years.
- Lane · entry 15113
- Mufradāt · row 347
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:60word 13
“(for) a long period”
Quran 78:23word 3
“(for) ages”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 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 23 Classical meanings
حَقِبَ
To suffer suppression or difficulty of urination; said especially of a camel whose urine is obstructed by pressure from the hind girth.
This is a Form I intransitive use, with the obstruction associated with the حَقَب or hind girth.
- Lane · entry 15109
حَقِبَ
To be held back, delayed, diminished, or impeded; of rain, to be withheld; of a mine, to cease yielding; of a gift or benefit, to become little or cease; and of an affair, to become disordered or obstructed.
These are extended or figurative uses applied to rain, years, mines, benefits, and affairs.
- Lane · entry 15109
أَحْقَبَ
To gird a camel with a حَقَب, the hind girth or securing strap.
Form IV; the object is the camel and its saddle equipment.
- Lane · entry 15110
أَحْقَبَ
To make another person ride behind him on the same beast.
A conventional causative riding construction.
- Lane · entry 15110
اِحْتَقَبَ
To put, carry, or convey a bag or other thing behind the rider or behind a saddle; by extension, to make a person ride behind on the carried baggage.
Form VIII; the underlying image is of something secured or conveyed behind the rider.
- Lane · entry 15111
اِحْتَقَبَ
To take upon oneself or accumulate a burden, whether good or evil, and lay it up for the future; of sin, to incur or commit it.
A figurative Form VIII use based on carrying or collecting something behind oneself.
- Lane · entry 15111
حِقْبَة
A period or stretch of time of unspecified duration.
This feminine noun is explicitly related to حُقْب, but its duration is left undefined in the cited lexical account.
- Lane · entry 15117
حَقَب
A camel’s hind girth, or a cord used to secure the saddle or a rear baggage receptacle to the animal’s belly.
The strap lies near the animal’s flank and is used to prevent the saddle from shifting forward or causing injury.
- Lane · entry 15114
حَقَب
In excellent she-camels, slender or small flanks with taut, firm skin, regarded as an approved quality.
An anatomical or descriptive use concerning the conformation of a camel.
- Lane · entry 15114
حِقَاب
A woman’s waist ornament or ornamented band worn around the waist.
A named article of adornment, compared in the lexical account with a threaded ornament.
- Lane · entry 15118
حِقَاب
A thread or string tied around a child’s waist as protection against the evil eye.
A distinct protective use of the waist-bound cord.
- Lane · entry 15118
حِقَاب
The whiteness appearing at the root of the nail.
An anatomical descriptive use.
- Lane · entry 15118
حَقِيبَة
A bag, receptacle, or item of baggage carried behind the rider or attached to the rear of a saddle.
The word may denote travel provisions, goods, utensils, padding, or other material conveyed at the back of the saddle.
- Lane · entry 15119
حَقِيبَة
A thing one takes upon oneself or lays up for future consequences, figuratively conceived as baggage carried behind.
A tropical use illustrated with burdens of evil and the stored benefit of piety.
- Lane · entry 15119
حَقِيبَة
The hind parts or posteriors of a woman or man.
A bodily use derived from the rearward location associated with the baggage term.
- Lane · entry 15119
حَاقِب
One afflicted with urinary difficulty or retention; of a person, one delayed in urination or suffering constipation.
The word is also applied to a camel whose urination is obstructed by pressure from the hind girth.
- Lane · entry 15120
أَحْقَب
A wild ass, especially one described as white on the belly or flanks or as slender in the flanks.
The cited lexical authorities differ over whether the name refers primarily to whiteness or to slenderness.
- Lane · entry 15121
حَقْبَاء
A tall, slender isolated mountain or rocky hill whose middle or flanks are marked by whitish dust or mirage.
A feminine descriptive form applied to a قارة or small isolated mountain; the precise account of the whiteness varies in the cited wording.
- Lane · entry 15121
مُحْقَب
One made to ride behind another on the same beast.
A passive-participial use describing the rear rider.
- Lane · entry 15122
مُحْقَب
Something bound upon a حَقِيبَة or upon rear saddle-bags.
A passive-participial use describing an object secured to the baggage behind the saddle.
- Lane · entry 15122
مُحْقَب
The fox.
A lexicalized animal name explained by the whiteness of the fox’s belly.
- Lane · entry 15122
مُحْقِب
One who makes another person ride behind him on the same beast.
An active-participial use describing the person providing the rear ride.
- Lane · entry 15123
مُحْقِب
One who makes his religion follow that of others without evidence, proof, or considered judgment.
A figurative use of the active participle, describing uncritical conformity in religious belief.
- Lane · entry 15123
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lexical reports assign varying numerical measures to حُقْب; the Quranic contexts support an extended duration without requiring a single fixed measure.
A historical Lane citation is not used here as a modern verse location; the displayed Quran examples rely on the independently supplied QAC locations.