أ خ ذ (ʾ-kh-dh): Every Word From This Root in the Quran

Quran Root Words > Root ʾ-kh-dh

The Arabic root أ خ ذ (ʾ-kh-dh) occurs 273 times in the Quran, in 7 different words, and is number 34 of the Quran's 1,642 roots by frequency. The most frequent word is أَخَذَ (akhadha), 127 times, followed by ٱتَّخَذَ (ittakhadha), 124 times.

What the root ʾ-kh-dh means

The Quranic Arabic Corpus glosses the root's form I verb أَخَذَ (akhadha) as "to take, to seize". Its other verbs are glossed there as follows: ٱتَّخَذَ (ittakhadha), form VIII, "to take" and يُؤَاخِذُ (yuʾākhidhu), form III, "to call to account, to punish".

One letter of ʾ-kh-dh is a hamza, the glottal stop. Arabic writes a hamza on a seat chosen by the vowels around it (أ, إ, ؤ, ئ, or ء on its own), so words from a hamza root can look different from one another, as the root's words أَخَذَ (akhadha) and يُؤَاخِذُ (yuʾākhidhu) do.

Every word from the root ʾ-kh-dh in the Quran

The Quran builds 7 different words on ʾ-kh-dh. The table lists them from most to least frequent, with the spelling the corpus gives each one, its word type, its meaning and its number of occurrences. Verbs make up 260 of the root's 273 occurrences, in forms I, III and VIII.

Meanings in quotation marks are MASAQ word-by-word glosses, the others the corpus dictionary's, and the word types follow the dictionary. Every count on this page is a lemma count from the Quranic Arabic Corpus, version 0.4. We compared each of these 7 counts, and the root total of 273, with the corpus's own dictionary entry for ʾ-kh-dh, and all of them match.

The root ʾ-kh-dh in the verses of the Quran

Words from ʾ-kh-dh appear in 244 verses spread over 55 of the Quran's 114 suras. Sura 7 has the most of them, 24 verses. Below are the shortest verses in which the root's most frequent words occur, with the word marked. The text is the Uthmani text of Tanzil, and each reference opens the verse on quran.com with translations.

أَخَذَ (akhadha), 127 times

خُذُوهُ فَغُلُّوهُ
Quran 69:30; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "seize him"

لَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُ بِٱلْيَمِينِ
Quran 69:45; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "certainly we (would) have seized"

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ مُشْرِقِينَ
Quran 15:73; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "so seized them"

ٱتَّخَذَ (ittakhadha), 124 times

وَقَالُوا۟ ٱتَّخَذَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَلَدًا
Quran 19:88; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "has taken"

وَتَتَّخِذُونَ مَصَانِعَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَخْلُدُونَ
Quran 26:129; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "and take for yourselves"

يُؤَاخِذُ (yuʾākhidhu), 9 times

قَالَ لَا تُؤَاخِذْنِى بِمَا نَسِيتُ وَلَا تُرْهِقْنِى مِنْ أَمْرِى عُسْرًا
Quran 18:73; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "blame me"

لَّا يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِٱللَّغْوِ فِىٓ أَيْمَٰنِكُمْ وَلَٰكِن يُؤَاخِذُكُم بِمَا كَسَبَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ غَفُورٌ حَلِيمٌ
Quran 2:225; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "will take you to task"

Learning the words of ʾ-kh-dh

أَخَذَ (akhadha), no. 87 with 127 and ٱتَّخَذَ (ittakhadha), no. 90 with 124, are on our list of the 100 most common Quran words, which counts them the same way. Its verbs follow the patterns of the Arabic verb forms (forms I, III and VIII), and our Arabic verb conjugator conjugates any root in any form, so you can see how أَخَذَ changes for person and tense. Our full conjugation of akhadha sets out every person and tense of أَخَذَ. The root ʾ-kh-dh is one of the 1,642 roots you can search in our Quran root word explorer; for the rest of the language, see our Arabic learning resources by level.

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