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خسأ

k-h-s-ā

The root خَسَأَ primarily means to drive away, repel, or cast out with contempt and disgrace. It implies being rejected and sent back in a state of humiliation, often like a dog being driven away.

Root

خ-س-أ

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Total uses

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Surahs

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Root

خ-س-أ

Root Meaning

The root خَسَأَ primarily means to drive away, repel, or cast out with contempt and disgrace. It implies being rejected and sent back in a state of humiliation, often like a dog being driven away.

Derived forms

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (4)

Al-Baqarah 2:65

خَٰسِـِٔينَMeaning here: The root خَسَأَ primarily means to drive away, repel, or cast out with contempt and disgrace. It implies being rejected and sent back in a state of humiliation, often like a dog being driven away.

And ye know of those of you who broke the Sabbath, how We said unto them: Be ye apes, despised and hated

Al-A'raf 7:166

خَٰسِـِٔينَMeaning here: The root خَسَأَ primarily means to drive away, repel, or cast out with contempt and disgrace. It implies being rejected and sent back in a state of humiliation, often like a dog being driven away.

So when they took pride in that which they had been forbidden, We said unto them: Be ye apes despised and loathed

Al-Mu'minun 23:108

ٱخْسَـُٔوا۟Meaning here: The root خَسَأَ primarily means to drive away, repel, or cast out with contempt and disgrace. It implies being rejected and sent back in a state of humiliation, often like a dog being driven away.

He saith: Begone therein, and speak not unto Me

Al-Mulk 67:4

خَاسِئًا

Then look again and yet again, thy sight will return unto thee weakened and made dim

🔎 Across the Quran (4)

Al-A'raf 7:85

وَإِلَىٰ مَدۡيَنَ أَخَاهُمۡ شُعَيۡبࣰ اۚ قَالَ يَٰقَوۡمِ ٱعۡبُدُواْ ٱللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنۡ إِلَٰهٍ غَيۡرُهُۥۖ قَدۡ جَآءَتۡكُم بَيِّنَةࣱ مِّن رَّبِّكُمۡۖ فَأَوۡفُواْ ٱلۡكَيۡلَ وَٱلۡمِيزَانَ وَلَا ٱلنَّاسَ أَشۡيَآءَهُمۡ وَلَا تُفۡسِدُواْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ بَعۡدَ إِصۡلَٰحِهَاۚ ذَٰلِكُمۡ خَيۡرࣱ لَّكُمۡ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ

And to Midian We sent forth their brother Shu'ayb He exhorted them: O my people! Serve Allah, you have no god but Him. Indeed a clear proof has come to you from your Lord. So give just weight and measure and diminish not to men their things ' and make no mischief on the earth after it has been set in good order. That is to your own good, if you truly believe

Hud 11:15

مَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ ٱلۡحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنۡيَا وَزِينَتَهَا نُوَفِّ إِلَيۡهِمۡ أَعۡمَٰلَهُمۡ فِيهَا وَهُمۡ فِيهَا لَا

Those who seek merely the present world and its adornment. We fully recompense them for their work in this world, and they are made to suffer no diminution in it concerning what is their due

Hud 11:85

وَيَٰقَوۡمِ أَوۡفُواْ ٱلۡمِكۡيَالَ وَٱلۡمِيزَانَ بِٱلۡقِسۡطِۖ وَلَا ٱلنَّاسَ أَشۡيَآءَهُمۡ وَلَا تَعۡثَوۡاْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ مُفۡسِدِينَ

My people! Give full measure and weight with justice, do not diminish the goods of others, and do not go about creating corruption in the land

Ash-Shu'ara 26:183

وَلَا ٱلنَّاسَ أَشۡيَآءَهُمۡ وَلَا تَعۡثَوۡاْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ مُفۡسِدِينَ

and do not deliver short, and do not go about creating mischief in the land