Quran glossary · draft

حَرَض

wasted away

Reduced by prolonged grief to near-total bodily exhaustion.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: حرض

Lemmas: حرض

Forms: حَرَضًا

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

12:85

قَالُوا۟ تَٱللَّهِ تَفْتَؤُا۟ تَذْكُرُ يُوسُفَ حَتَّىٰ تَكُونَ حَرَضًا أَوْ تَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْهَٰلِكِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All three occurrences were reviewed. Form II urges believers toward resolute fighting, while the underived adjective describes Jacob approaching complete physical depletion through grief. Both profile movement toward an extreme.