# Ayn-Dad-Dad — عضض (EDD)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/EDD

- **Meaning:** To bite the hands in sorrow, bite, seize with the teeth.
- **Derived forms:** عَضُّ (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 119

- **Form in this verse:** عَضُّوا۟ — ʿaḍḍū · "they bite"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, plural · past tense

هَٓا اَنْتُمْ اُو۬لَٓاءِ تُحِبُّونَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِبُّونَكُمْ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْكِتَابِ كُلِّه۪ۚ وَاِذَا لَقُوكُمْ قَالُٓوا اٰمَنَّاۗ وَاِذَا خَلَوْا عَضُّوا عَلَيْكُمُ الْاَنَامِلَ مِنَ الْغَيْظِۜ قُلْ مُوتُوا بِغَيْظِكُمْۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ عَل۪يمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ

Ha antum ola-i tuhibboonahumwala yuhibboonakum watu/minoona bilkitabikullihi wa-itha laqookum qaloo amannawa-itha khalaw AAaddoo AAalaykumu al-anamilamina alghaythi qul mootoo bighaythikuminna Allaha AAaleemun bithati assudoor

Here you are, those who love them; and they love you not, when you believe in the Writ — all of it. And when they meet you, they say: “We believe,” but when they are alone, they bite their fingertips at you from rage. Say thou: “Die in your rage, God knows what is in the breasts.”

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-119.md_

### 25. Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 27

- **Form in this verse:** يَعَضُّ — yaʿaḍḍu · "will bite"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلٰى يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ سَب۪يلاً

Wayawma yaAAaddu aththalimuAAala yadayhi yaqoolu ya laytanee ittakhathtumaAAa arrasooli sabeela

And the day the wrongdoer will bite his hands, he will say: “Would that I had taken with the Messenger a path!

_https://quran.so/surah-al-furqan/verse-27.md_

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