Quranic root
هطع
h · ṭ · ʿ
A root orientation toward something, often with directed movement and compliance with the direction faced.
The evidence develops from directing the gaze or neck toward an object to advancing toward it, including the sense of hastening forward.
- Maqāyīs · row 4905
- Mufradāt · row 1526
- 1
- 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.
مُهْطِع
muhṭiʿ
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 3 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.
With the gaze or neck directed forward toward something; holding a fixed, forward-oriented posture.
Describes a person or group whose gaze is directed and whose neck or face is held toward the object of attention, as in the Quranic depiction of people with raised heads and an unreturning gaze.
- Mufradāt · row 1526
Selected Quran examples
Quran 14:43word 1
“Racing ahead”
Hastening or pressing forward toward a destination or caller.
Used in a construction of directed advance, especially with إِلَى meaning “toward”; the hastening expresses the forward-directed posture of the word.
- Mufradāt · row 1526
- Maqāyīs · row 4905
Selected Quran examples
Quran 54:8word 1
“Racing ahead”
Quran 70:36word 5
“(they) hasten”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
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Points that affect how this root should be read.
The supplied Quran occurrences are plural active participles; the public headword is normalized to the singular citation form مُهْطِع.
No Lane primary evidence was supplied, so no additional Classical branches beyond the Quran-attested usages are asserted.