Quranic root
رسخ
r · s · kh
The root centers on firm, settled stability and enduring establishment.
Its concrete sense of becoming fixed or settled extends to being deeply rooted in knowledge and to things sinking or becoming established in the earth; the causative form expresses making something firm.
- Maqāyīs · row 2025
- Mufradāt · row 551
- Lane · entry 23213
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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.
رَاسِخ
rāsikh
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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.
Firmly rooted and established in knowledge; possessing settled understanding that is not shaken by doubt.
Used in the Quranic construction الرَّاسِخُونَ فِي الْعِلْمِ for those firmly grounded or advanced in knowledge. The construction is also explained in terms of studying, memorizing, and recalling the revealed Book and its teachings.
- Lane · entry 23215
- Mufradāt · row 551
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:7word 32
“And those firm”
Quran 4:162word 2
“the ones who are firm”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
View all 2 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 5 Classical meanings
رَسَخَ
To become firm, steady, fixed, settled, or established; to become deeply rooted or fixed.
Used literally of something fixed in its place and figuratively of ink fixed on a surface or love fixed in the heart.
- Lane · entry 23213
رَسَخَ
Of water or rain, to sink into the earth and disappear or penetrate into the soil.
Applied to a pool left by a torrent and to rain sinking into the earth until the moisture below meets it.
- Lane · entry 23213
رَسْخ
A reported technical term for the soul’s connection, after leaving the body, with an inanimate, non-growing body.
A rare, marginally reported usage distinguished from related terms for connection with a human, animal, or plant body.
- Lane · entry 23213
أَرْسَخَ
To make something firm, steady, fixed, settled, or established.
A transitive causative construction expressing the establishment of an object in a firm or stable state.
- Lane · entry 23214
رَاسِخ
Firm, steadfast, fixed, settled, or established.
An adjective used literally of something firmly fixed, such as a mountain or a compacted deposit, and figuratively of a firm footing or established standing.
- Lane · entry 23215
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The lexical discussion invokes 49:15 as a characterization of the firmly rooted in knowledge, not as an additional supplied occurrence of this form; the counted Quranic occurrences are 3:7 and 4:162.