Quranic root
هود
h · w · d
A root field centered on gentle return, quieting, and the restoration of settled relations.
The lexical field extends from gentle or quiet movement to repentance and return, leniency, reconciliation, and related social bonds. The Jewish designation is traditionally connected with repentance, while Hūd is also the proper name of a prophet.
- Maqāyīs · row 4960
- Mufradāt · row 1538
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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.
هَادَ
hāda
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 11 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 return or turn back in repentance; to return to the truth or to God.
In the Quranic construction هُدْنَا إِلَيْكَ, the verb denotes repentant return toward God and is construed with إِلَى as implying return.
- Lane · entry 10724
- Mufradāt · row 1538
Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:156word 10
“we have turned”
To become Jewish or follow the Jewish religion.
Used of adopting or belonging to the Jewish religious way; Quranic translations may render the form as “became Jews,” “were Jews,” or “are Jews” according to context.
- Lane · entry 10724
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:62word 5
“became Jews”
Quran 4:46word 3
“are Jews”
هُود
hūd
- Part of speech
- Proper noun · Prophet
- Quran occurrences
- 7 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.
The proper name of the prophet Hūd.
Used as a personal name in direct address, genitive constructions, and references to the prophet and his people.
- Mufradāt · row 1538
Selected Quran examples
هُود
hūd
- Part of speech
- Proper noun · Jewish people
- 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.
The Jews; the Jewish people or community.
A collective/proper designation for the Jewish people, distinct in the Quranic morphology from the personal name Hūd.
- Lane · entry 10733
Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:111word 8
“(a) Jew[s]”
Quran 2:135word 3
“Jews”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 21 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 25 Classical meanings
هَادَ
To return or turn back from one state to another.
The general lexical sense includes return from evil to good or from good to evil; the repentant Quranic construction is separately represented under the Form I verb.
- Lane · entry 10724
هَوَّدَ
To make someone a Jew; to turn, teach, or initiate someone into Judaism.
A transitive Form II usage, including making a person or child follow the Jewish religion.
- Lane · entry 10725
تَهْوِيدٌ
The gentle, weak-sounding conversation of jinn.
A term applied to the quiet manner of the jinns’ voices.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَوَّدَ
To reiterate, quaver, trill, or utter a low and gentle voice.
Used of soft, weak, low, or languid speech and vocalization.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَوَّدَ
To sing, or to gladden and divert by singing.
A Form II usage describing singing and its entertaining or heartening effect.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَوَّدَ
To go or proceed gently, slowly, or at a leisurely pace.
Used of a slow and gentle manner of walking or movement.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَوَّدَ
To intoxicate a person and make him languid or sleepy.
Used of a beverage or wine producing intoxication, languor, and sleepiness.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَوَّدَ
To rest, become still, or be quiet and at rest.
Describes cessation of movement or a state of repose.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَوَّدَ
To sleep.
An intransitive Form II usage.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَوَّدَ
To be gentle or to act in a gentle manner.
A general description of gentle conduct or behavior.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَوَّدَ
Of wind, to murmur or sound gently over sand.
Used for the soft murmuring sound made by wind passing over sand.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَوَّدَ
To eat part of a camel’s hump.
A specialized Form II usage referring to eating the camel-hump substance called هَوَدَة.
- Lane · entry 10725
هَاوَدَ
To make peace with, reconcile with, or restore oneself to another’s favor.
A reciprocal Form III construction for peace-making, reconciliation, or renewed favor.
- Lane · entry 10726
هَاوَدَ
To incline mutually toward one another.
Used reciprocally of two parties mutually inclining toward or accommodating one another.
- Lane · entry 10726
هَاوَدَ
To return to someone or something repeatedly.
A Form III usage expressing repeated return or renewed approach.
- Lane · entry 10726
تَهَوَّدَ
To walk gently while imitating the movements associated with Jewish recitation or reading.
An idiomatic Form V usage specifically describing a gentle, imitative manner of walking.
- Lane · entry 10727
تَهَوَّدَ
To become allied, seek alliance, or draw near through a relationship or other sacred and inviolable bond.
Used of affiliating oneself through kinship or another bond regarded as sacred, inviolable, or conferring respect.
- Lane · entry 10727
هَوَدَةٌ
A camel’s hump, or the base of the hump.
The plural/collective form هَوَد is also reported for the hump substance.
- Lane · entry 10730
هَوَادَةٌ
Gentleness, leniency, quietness, or a favorable and conciliatory disposition.
May describe conduct intended to settle an affair, bring peace or reconciliation, show affection or favor, or facilitate an arrangement.
- Lane · entry 10731
هَوَادَةٌ
A sacred or inviolable bond, including a bond of relationship.
The bond is one regarded as deserving respect or reverence and as conferring a claim to consideration.
- Lane · entry 10731
هَائِدٌ
One who returns, repents, and returns to the truth.
An active participle of هَادَ; its plural is هُودٌ.
- Lane · entry 10732
اليَهُودِيَّةُ
The Jewish religion.
A feminine abstract noun denoting Judaism as a religious system.
- Lane · entry 10735
مُهَوِّدٌ
Low, quiet, or softly voiced singing.
Used of singing that is not loud.
- Lane · entry 10736
مُهَوِّدٌ
Gladdening and diverting.
An adjectival usage describing something that entertains or cheers.
- Lane · entry 10736
مُتَهَوِّدٌ
One who allies himself, seeks alliance, or draws near through a sacred or inviolable bond.
An active participial designation derived from the alliance sense of تَهَوَّدَ.
- Lane · entry 10737
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The identical spelling هُود represents two distinct QAC proper-noun groups here: the prophet Hūd and the Jewish people.
Lane’s historical citation for هُودًا in entry 10733 is not converted into a modern verse location; Quran examples use only the independently supplied QAC locations.