Quranic root
نقذ
n · q · dh
The root centers on extracting or delivering something from danger, capture, or adversity into safety.
The semantic range develops from becoming safe or escaping, to rescuing another, and to designating what has been rescued. A related nominal use describes an object—especially a horse or animal—taken from another people and recovered.
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- Quran-attested forms
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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.
أَنْقَذَ
ʾanqadha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 4 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 save, rescue, or liberate someone or something from danger, distress, an adversary, or another harmful condition.
Transitive Form IV; the object may be delivered from a person or opponent, from evil, or from a perilous predicament. Quranic occurrences include both active and passive voice.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:103word 26
“then He saved you”
Quran 36:43word 9
“would be saved”
اِسْتَنْقَذَ
āistanqadha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form X
- Form
- X
- 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 seek or attempt to save, rescue, or liberate someone or something.
Form X presents the rescue as sought or attempted; the object may be something to be recovered from an overpowering adversary.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:73word 24
“they (could) take it back”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:103فَأَنقَذَكُمthen He saved you
- 22:73يَسْتَنقِذُوهُthey (could) take it back
- 36:23يُنقِذُونِthey (can) save me
- 36:43يُنقَذُونَwould be saved
- 39:19تُنقِذُsave
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 6 Classical meanings
نَقِذَ
To become safe, escape, or be saved and liberated.
Intransitive Form I. The verbal noun نَقْذ occurs in the benedictive expression نَقْذًا لَكَ, “safety to you.”
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نَقَذٌ / نَقِيذٌ / نَقِيذَةٌ
A person or thing that has been saved, rescued, or liberated; especially a horse taken from another people, or an animal recovered from an enemy. The plural is نَقَائِذُ.
The term can describe one rescued from distress or adversity and can designate a recovered possession or animal in the context of conflict.
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نَقَذٌ / نَقِيذٌ
A coat of mail regarded as saving its wearer from the sword.
A specialized nominal use explained through the protective function of armor.
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نَقَذٌ
In the expression مَا لَهُ شَقَذٌ وَلَا نَقَذٌ: to possess nothing.
Restricted to the cited idiomatic expression.
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نَقِيذَةٌ
A woman who has previously had a husband.
A specialized nominal use of نَقِيذَةٌ.
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الأَنْقَذُ / أَنْقَذُ
A hedgehog.
A lexical animal name, with or without the definite article.
- Lane · entry 44344
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form X sense is anchored in its cross-reference to the Form IV rescue entry; “take it back” in 22:73 is retained as contextual wording rather than treated as a separate lexical sense.