Quranic root
خلد
kh · l · d
The root centers on remaining firmly in a state or place and maintaining a condition without interruption.
From staying and continued adherence, the root develops meanings of prolonged or perpetual existence, attachment or reliance, unchanged youth, and things that remain fixed or attached.
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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.
خَلَدَ
khalada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- 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.
To remain or abide indefinitely; to live forever.
In the Quranic Form I occurrences, the imperfect denotes continued existence without an indicated end.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 25:69word 6
“and he will abide forever”
Quran 26:129word 4
“live forever”
أَخْلَدَ
ʾakhlada
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- 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.
To cause someone or something to remain or abide permanently; to make immortal.
In 104:3, the verb describes wealth being imagined to make its possessor immortal.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 104:3word 4
“will make him immortal”
To incline or attach oneself to, and rely upon, something.
The Quranic construction أَخْلَدَ إِلَى describes turning toward and relying upon the earth or worldly life, rather than literal residence.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:176word 6
“adhered”
مُخَلَّد
mukhallad
- Part of speech
- Passive 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.
Perpetually youthful or unchanged in age; not subject to decrepitude.
This is an interpretation of مُخَلَّدُونَ in the Quranic description of those whose age and condition do not deteriorate.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 56:17word 4
“immortal”
Adorned with earrings or other ear ornaments.
This is the alternative Quranic interpretation of مُخَلَّدُونَ reported for the same passages.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 76:19word 4
“made eternal”
خَالِد
khālid
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 74 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.
One who abides or remains forever; everlasting or immortal.
The Quranic active participle is used of beings or groups destined to remain perpetually in a stated condition or abode.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:108word 1
“Abiding forever”
Quran 7:20word 25
“the immortals”
خُلْد
khuld
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 6 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.
Perpetual existence, immortality, or eternity.
The noun occurs in Quranic genitive expressions for an enduring state, including an abode or punishment characterized by perpetual existence.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 21:34word 6
“[the] immortality”
Quran 25:15word 6
“(of) Eternity”
خُلُود
khulūd
- Part of speech
- Verbal 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.
Perpetual existence; eternity or abiding without decay.
The verbal noun denotes the state or duration of remaining permanently.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 50:34word 5
“(of) Eternity”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:25خَـٰلِدُونَ(will) abide forever
- 2:39خَـٰلِدُونَ(will) abide forever
- 2:81خَـٰلِدُونَ(will) abide forever
- 2:82خَـٰلِدُونَ(will) abide forever
- 2:162خَـٰلِدِينَ(Will) abide forever
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
خَلَدَ
To remain, stay, dwell, or continue for a long time.
An ordinary intransitive use, including remaining in a place or dwelling; the perpetually abiding use is separately represented among the Quranic senses.
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خَلَدَ
To be slow to become gray and retain youthful signs in old age.
A figurative use describing continued youthfulness as though one were created to last forever.
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خَلَّدَ
To adorn someone with earrings, bracelets, or similar ornaments.
A transitive Form II use; the source's mention of a girl is illustrative, not a restriction on the object.
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أَخْلَدَ
To keep or cling to a companion.
Used with بِـ for maintaining attachment to someone; distinct from أَخْلَدَ إِلَى, ‘to incline or rely upon’.
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خُلْد
Paradise, the world to come, or an abode of perpetual existence.
A conventional designation, especially in دَارُ الْخُلْدِ, ‘the abode of perpetual existence’.
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خُلْد
A bracelet or earring; collectively, personal ornaments.
A nominal use distinct from the abstract meaning of perpetual existence.
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خُلْد
A mole or blind rat, especially a naturally eyeless subterranean animal; also a species of rat.
The entry also records variant forms associated with this animal name.
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خُلْد
A species of lark.
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خَلَد
The mind or heart.
Used for what is settled within a person's inward thought or feeling.
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خَلْد
The part of a person that remains unchanged while the person is alive.
A specialized nominal designation for a bodily part distinguished by its persistence of condition.
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خَالِد
Something that remains fixed in place, such as the stones of a hearth; figuratively, a mountain, stone, or rock.
A figurative extension from enduring in place; the references to hearth stones and rocks are lexical applications of that idea.
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مُخْلِد
Slow to become gray, with hair remaining black in old age; also one whose teeth do not fall out because of extreme age.
A specialized adjective describing delayed physical aging.
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مُخْلِد
Still or motionless.
A rare figurative extension recorded in the lexical discussion.
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مُخَلَّدَة
An animal whose milk incisors remain until its permanent teeth emerge.
A specialized animal description based on persistence of the teeth.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
مُخَلَّدُونَ in 56:17 and 76:19 has two explicitly reported interpretations in the supplied lexical evidence: perpetually youthful or unchanged, and adorned with earrings or other ornaments; both are retained rather than collapsed.
أَخْلَدَ إِلَى is a conventional attachment-and-reliance construction and should not be read as merely the causative of physical residence.