Quran glossary · draft

تَحَرَّى intentional-pursuit verb

seek deliberately

To direct oneself carefully and intentionally toward a desired goal.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1

Roots: حري

Lemmas: تحر

Forms: تَحَرَّ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

72:14

وَأَنَّا مِنَّا ٱلْمُسْلِمُونَ وَمِنَّا ٱلْقَٰسِطُونَ فَمَنْ أَسْلَمَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ تَحَرَّوْا۟ رَشَدًا

Where other meanings fail

accidentally encountered

72:14

وَأَنَّا مِنَّا ٱلْمُسْلِمُونَ وَمِنَّا ٱلْقَٰسِطُونَ فَمَنْ أَسْلَمَ فَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ تَحَرَّوْا۟ رَشَدًا

Alternative: those accidentally encountered sound direction

Research rendering: those sought sound direction deliberately

The alternative removes the agentive intentional pursuit encoded by the transitive verb and its selected goal.