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ح-و-ج

Ha-Waw-Jim

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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

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
اِحْتَاجَ
iḥtāja
to needverb, A1Action Verbs - Communication

In the Quran

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 يَعْلَمُونَ

And 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.

Quran 12:68
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.

Quran 40:80

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).

Word cards with examples

A1verb
اِحْتَاجَ
iḥtāja

to need

Example
احتجتُ إلى مساعدتِكَ
iḥtajtu ilā musāʿadatika
I needed your help
Grammar

Form VIII hollow verb (اِفْتَعَلَ). Past: iḥtāja, Present: yaḥtāju. Takes ilā (إلى).

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