Quranic root
غصب
gh · ṣ · b
The central semantic orientation is the forcible or wrongful taking of something from another.
The supplied lexical evidence extends this orientation to the seized thing, the taker, and the person dispossessed, as well as to related constructions of compulsion, sexual violation, and stripping hair or fur from a hide.
- Lane · entry 29370
- Lane · entry 29373
- Lane · entry 29374
- Lane · entry 29375
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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.
غَصْبٌ
ghaṣbun
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- 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.
Forcible or wrongful taking; seizure by force.
The Quran occurrence is the accusative verbal noun غَصْبًا, used adverbially with an act of taking to mean “by force.”
- Lane · entry 29370
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:79word 17
“(by) force”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 18:79غَصْبًۭا(by) force
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 10 Classical meanings
غَصَبَ
To take another’s property or possession wrongfully, unjustly, injuriously, or by force.
The construction may place the taken thing as object, or use مِنْهُ or عَلَيْهِ for the person from whom it is taken.
- Lane · entry 29370
غَصْبٌ
In legal usage, the taking of valuable, legally protected property without the owner’s permission and without stealth.
The technical definition distinguishes it from theft and entrusted property and excludes things not treated as legally protected property or as having a lawful price, as well as property not legally forbidden to seize under the stated legal distinctions.
- Lane · entry 29370
غَصَبَ
To violate sexually or have sexual intercourse with someone against their will.
This is attested in the construction غَصَبَهَا نَفْسَهَا / نَفْسِهَا as a forcible violation.
- Lane · entry 29370
غَصَبَ
To compel someone by force to do something.
The construction غَصَبَ فُلَانًا عَلَى الشَّيْءِ takes the compelled person with عَلَى followed by the thing or action.
- Lane · entry 29370
غَصَبَ
To remove the hair or fur from a hide by plucking or peeling it.
A specialized hide-preparation usage, described as removing the hair or fur without the customary soaking or loosening processes.
- Lane · entry 29370
غَاصَبَ
To take something from someone by violence.
This Form III usage is reported in the supplied entry without a named supporting authority.
- Lane · entry 29371
اِغْتَصَبَ
To be sexually violated or raped by force.
The supplied evidence attests the passive constructions اُغْتُصِبَتْ نَفْسَهَا and اُغْتُصِبَتْ عَلَى نَفْسِهَا.
- Lane · entry 29372
غَصْبٌ
A thing taken wrongfully, unjustly, injuriously, or by force.
This is the result or object meaning of the noun, distinct from its verbal-noun meaning “forcible taking.”
- Lane · entry 29373
غَاصِبٌ
One who takes something wrongfully, unjustly, injuriously, or by force.
The plural form غُصَّابٌ is also reported.
- Lane · entry 29374
مَغْصُوبٌ لَهُ / مَغْصُوبٌ مِنْهُ
A person from whom something has been taken wrongfully or by force.
This is a specialized passive-participial construction referring to the dispossessed person.
- Lane · entry 29375
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
No root-specific Maqayis or Mufradat entry was supplied; the root orientation is therefore based on the supplied Lane evidence.
The sole Quran occurrence is غَصْبًا, an accusative verbal noun used adverbially; the broader classical agent, result, legal, sexual, and hide-related usages are not claimed as Quranic senses of that occurrence.