to need
Form VIII hollow verb (اِفْتَعَلَ). Past: iḥtāja, Present: yaḥtāju. Takes ilā (إلى).
Ha-Waw-Jim
1 word from this root family
Ha-Waw-Jim (ح-و-ج) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: iḥtāja (to need).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 3 times in 3 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 12:68.
Themes: Verbs, Cognition, Advanced Verbs
| Word | Meaning | Type | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|
اِحْتَاجَ iḥtāja | to need | verb, A1 | Action Verbs - Communication |
وَلَمَّا دَخَلُوا۟ مِنْ حَيْثُ أَمَرَهُمْ أَبُوهُم مَّا كَانَ يُغْنِى عَنْهُم مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ مِن شَىْءٍ إِلَّا حَاجَةً فِى نَفْسِ يَعْقُوبَ قَضَىٰهَا ۚ وَإِنَّهُۥ لَذُو عِلْمٍ لِّمَا عَلَّمْنَـٰهُ وَلَـٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَAnd when they entered in the manner which their father had enjoined, it would have naught availed them as against Allah; it was but a need of Jacob's soul which he thus satisfied; and lo! he was a lord of knowledge because We had taught him; but most of mankind know not.
وَلَكُمْ فِيهَا مَنَـٰفِعُ وَلِتَبْلُغُوا۟ عَلَيْهَا حَاجَةً فِى صُدُورِكُمْ وَعَلَيْهَا وَعَلَى ٱلْفُلْكِ تُحْمَلُونَ(Many) benefits ye have from them - and that ye may satisfy by their means a need that is in your breasts, and may be borne upon them as upon the ship.
Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).
Form VIII hollow verb (اِفْتَعَلَ). Past: iḥtāja, Present: yaḥtāju. Takes ilā (إلى).