Quranic root
خبأ
kh · b · ʾ
The root centers on concealing or keeping something out of sight.
From the act of hiding or concealing, the lexical development extends to hidden stores or unseen things, self-concealment, shelters, and related derived and idiomatic nouns.
- Maqāyīs · row 1499
- Mufradāt · row 382
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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.
خَبْءٌ
khabʾun
- 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 hidden, concealed, or unseen thing; a stored reserve.
In the Quranic expression concerning what is hidden in the heavens and earth, it denotes whatever is concealed or unseen and can be brought forth, rather than being limited to one particular physical object.
- Lane · entry 18276
- Mufradāt · row 382
Selected Quran examples
Quran 27:25word 6
“the hidden”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 27:25ٱلْخَبْءَthe hidden
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 14 Classical meanings
خَبَأَ
To hide or conceal something; to keep, preserve, guard, or store it.
The same concealment branch includes the related intensive or collective application and the transitive use explicitly cross-referenced for derived forms.
- Lane · entry 18272
اِخْتَبَأَ
To be or become hidden; to conceal oneself.
This is the intransitive or reflexive concealment use.
- Lane · entry 18275
خَابَأَ
To put something enigmatically to another person and ask them about it; to propose an enigma.
The construction involves presenting an obscure question or matter for the other person to solve.
- Lane · entry 18274
- Lane · entry 18275
خَبْءٌ
In established expressions, the hidden thing of the sky is rain, and the hidden thing of the earth is plants or herbage; the word may also denote seed hidden in the earth or what is hidden in its mines.
These are conventional referential extensions of the hidden or concealed thing sense.
- Lane · entry 18276
خَبْأَةٌ
A daughter.
A lexical noun used synonymously with بِنْتٌ.
- Lane · entry 18278
خُبَأَةٌ
A woman who alternately shows herself and hides herself, or who stays in her house or tent.
This is a conventional description of a woman characterized by concealment or seclusion.
- Lane · entry 18280
خِبَاءٌ
A tent or tentlike shelter, especially one made of wool, camel hair, or similar material.
The term can refer to a particular tent structure and is also applied more broadly to a tent.
- Lane · entry 18281
خِبَاءٌ
A mark made with a hot iron on a concealed part of an excellent she-camel.
A specialized technical use referring to a hidden bodily location on the animal.
- Lane · entry 18281
خَابِئٌ
An artifice or stratagem that ends in disappointment; a failed stratagem.
A lexical form explained as equivalent in meaning to خَائِبٌ, with transposition of the consonants.
- Lane · entry 18284
خَابِئَةٌ
A large jar or storage vessel.
Also pronounced خَابِيَةٌ, with suppression of the hamza in frequent usage.
- Lane · entry 18285
بِنْتُ الْخَابِيَةِ
Wine.
A figurative or assumed-tropical expression, literally referring to the daughter of the jar.
- Lane · entry 18285
مَخْبَأٌ
A place or chamber for hiding or concealing things; a secret place.
A place noun, with the plural مَخَابِئُ.
- Lane · entry 18286
مُخَبَّأَةٌ
A girl kept concealed from view, behind a curtain, or within a house or tent; also, a girl not yet married.
The term describes restricted visibility or residence and has a recorded application to an unmarried girl.
- Lane · entry 18287
مُخْتَبِئٌ
One who conceals himself in order to observe someone without being noticed.
The concealment is undertaken specifically to watch another person secretly.
- Lane · entry 18288
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The lexical affiliation of خِبَاءٌ is disputed in the supplied classical evidence, which records alternative connections with other roots; its tent and technical senses are retained because they are explicitly included in the supplied Lane entry for this root.