Quranic root
هلع
h · l · ʿ
The root conveys rapidity and sharp intensity, extending in human behavior to agitated, greed-like eagerness and quick panic.
The evidence presents a development from swift or sharp behavior, including animal descriptions, to human agitation: هَلَع is likened to greed, هَلُوع describes a person marked by it, and هُلْعَة describes one who panics readily.
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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.
هَلُوع
halūʿ
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 70:19هَلُوعًاanxious
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 4 Classical meanings
هِلْوَاع، هَالِع
Sharp and swift in animal descriptions: said of a she-camel and an ostrich.
Classical animal vocabulary; the two headwords apply to the respective animals named in the evidence.
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هَلَع، هَلُوع
In human usage, a state or disposition resembling greed or avid acquisitiveness; هَلُوع describes a person marked by it.
A human behavioral description, distinct from the animal applications of the root.
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هُلْعَة
A person who panics and grieves quickly.
A conventional description of a person who reacts with rapid panic and distress.
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هِلَّع، هِلَّعَة
A young goat—male or female—named for its impetuosity.
هِلَّع denotes a young male goat and هِلَّعَة a young female goat in the cited usage.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quran-attested form is retained from QAC, but the packet supplies no Lane primary or unique Mufradat evidence establishing a numbered Quranic lexical sense.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
The sole Quran occurrence, هَلُوعًا at 70:19:4, receives the Quran Foundation contextual gloss “anxious.” That gloss is contextual-only under the evidence rules and cannot by itself establish a Quranic sense.