Quranic root
جرح
j · r · ḥ
The root centers on two principal axes: cutting or wounding, and acquiring through effective action or work.
From acquisition through working limbs, الجوارح denotes both limbs and hunting animals that secure gain. The Form VIII verb develops the sense of acquiring sinful deeds, while bodily wounding extends to verbal disparagement and legal discrediting.
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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.
جَرَحَ
jaraḥa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To do or acquire through one's actions; in the Quranic usage, to commit or carry out deeds.
Used of what a person has done or acquired through activity, specifically in the supplied occurrence describing deeds performed by day.
- Lane · entry 46428
Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:60word 7
“you committed”
اِجْتَرَحَ
āijtaraḥa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- 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.
To acquire or commit sins and other evil deeds.
The Quranic Form VIII usage presents sinful action as something acquired through one's deeds.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 45:21word 4
“commit”
جَارِحَةٌ
jāriḥahun
- Part of speech
- 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.
A hunting animal, including a beast or bird of prey used to catch game.
The Quranic plural الجوارح refers to animals taught or used for hunting.
- Lane · entry 46439
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:4word 12
“(your) hunting animals”
جُرْحٌ
jurḥun
- Part of speech
- 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.
A wound or bodily injury.
The Quranic plural الجروح denotes bodily wounds in the context of legal retribution.
- Lane · entry 46433
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 5:45word 15
“and (for) wounds”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 5:4ٱلْجَوَارِحِ(your) hunting animals
- 5:45وَٱلْجُرُوحَand (for) wounds
- 6:60جَرَحْتُمyou committed
- 45:21ٱجْتَرَحُوا۟commit
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 9 Classical meanings
جَرَحَ
To wound or cut the body; in the intransitive use, to receive a wound.
The physical sense concerns an effect produced on the body by an instrument or similar means.
- Lane · entry 46428
- Lane · entry 46433
جَرَحَ
To wound by speech, revile or vilify; in legal usage, to impugn a witness or invalidate testimony.
Of a witness or person, it can mean that his testimony or claim to credibility is rejected.
- Lane · entry 46428
- Lane · entry 46433
جَرَحَ
To gain, acquire, or earn through work, especially by one's own effort or hands.
This is a classical extension used of working for sustenance or acquiring gain through one's activity.
- Lane · entry 46428
جُرْحَةٌ
A ground or objection by which testimony is invalidated or its credibility annulled.
A legal term for an allegation or finding that disqualifies testimony.
- Lane · entry 46434
جَرِيحٌ
Wounded.
The adjective is used for either masculine or feminine referents; its plural is جَرْحَى.
- Lane · entry 46435
جَرَّاحٌ
A surgeon who treats or dresses wounds.
A specialized occupational noun.
- Lane · entry 46438
جَارِحَةٌ
A bodily limb or organ by which a person acts, works, or acquires; by extension, a bodily organ used in action.
Examples include hands, arms, feet, and legs; the term can also apply to other functional organs.
- Lane · entry 46439
جَارِحَةٌ
A young, vigorous female animal valued for the reproductive gain it brings.
Applied to animals such as a she-camel, she-ass, or mare in a specialized classical usage.
- Lane · entry 46439
اِسْتَجْرَحَ
To become liable to rejection or discredit; of a report, to be defective or corrupt; of conduct, to incur censure.
Used of a person whose credibility is annulled, reports rejected as unreliable, or conduct that brings blame.
- Lane · entry 46431
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Classical lexicologists differ on the vocalized noun distinction between bodily wounds and injury by speech; the artifact keeps the physical-wound and verbal-discredit branches distinct.
A historical Quran citation in the lexical evidence is not converted into a modern verse location; the examples use only independently supplied QAC locations.