# Ha-Be-Ra — حبر (Hbr)

> Occurs in 6 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To make beautiful, delight, be joyful, cheer anyone. Habbara: To put ink - To beautify a thing, adorn or embellish a thing, make plain, effect someone with a happiness or joy or gladness, treat a person with honour, to be marked or scarred (the skin after beating), par a thing well.
- **Derived forms:** أَحْبَار (4) · يُحْبَرُ (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 5. Surah Al-Ma'idah, Verse 44

- **Form in this verse:** وَٱلْأَحْبَارُ — wal-aḥbāru · "and the scholars"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · nominative case

اِنَّٓا اَنْزَلْنَا التَّوْرٰيةَ ف۪يهَا هُدًى وَنُورٌۚ يَحْكُمُ بِهَا النَّبِيُّونَ الَّذ۪ينَ اَسْلَمُوا لِلَّذ۪ينَ هَادُوا وَالرَّبَّانِيُّونَ وَالْاَحْبَارُ بِمَا اسْتُحْفِظُوا مِنْ كِتَابِ اللّٰهِ وَكَانُوا عَلَيْهِ شُهَدَٓاءَۚ فَلَا تَخْشَوُا النَّاسَ وَاخْشَوْنِ وَلَا تَشْتَرُوا بِاٰيَات۪ي ثَمَناً قَل۪يلاًۜ وَمَنْ لَمْ يَحْكُمْ بِمَٓا اَنْزَلَ اللّٰهُ فَاُو۬لٰٓئِكَ هُمُ الْكَافِرُونَ

Inna anzalna attawratafeeha hudan wanoorun yahkumu biha annabiyyoonaallatheena aslamoo lillatheena hadoo warrabbaniyyoonawal-ahbaru bima istuhfithoomin kitabi Allahi wakanoo AAalayhi shuhadaafala takhshawoo annasa wakhshawniwala tashtaroo bi-ayatee thamanan qaleelanwaman lam yahkum bima anzala Allahu faola-ikahumu alkafiroon

We sent down the Torah wherein is guidance and light. The prophets who submitted judged thereby those who hold to Judaism as did the rabbis and the religious scholars with what ­they were given charge of the Writ of God and were thereto witnesses: “So fear not mankind but fear Me; and sell not My proofs at a cheap price.” And whoso judges not by what God has sent down, it is they who are the false claimers of guidance.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-maidah/verse-44.md_

### 5. Surah Al-Ma'idah, Verse 63

- **Form in this verse:** وَٱلْأَحْبَارُ — wal-aḥbāru · "and the religious scholars"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · nominative case

لَوْلَا يَنْهٰيهُمُ الرَّبَّانِيُّونَ وَالْاَحْبَارُ عَنْ قَوْلِهِمُ الْاِثْمَ وَاَكْلِهِمُ السُّحْتَۜ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا يَصْنَعُونَ

Lawla yanhahumu arrabbaniyyoonawal-ahbaru AAan qawlihimu al-ithmawaaklihimu assuhta labi/sa ma kanooyasnaAAoon

Oh, that the rabbis and the religious scholars had but forbidden their speaking sin and their consumption of illicit gain! Evil is what they were working.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-maidah/verse-63.md_

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 31

- **Form in this verse:** أَحْبَارَهُمْ — aḥbārahum · "their rabbis"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · accusative case

اِتَّخَذُٓوا اَحْبَارَهُمْ وَرُهْبَانَهُمْ اَرْبَاباً مِنْ دُونِ اللّٰهِ وَالْمَس۪يحَ ابْنَ مَرْيَمَۚ وَمَٓا اُمِرُٓوا اِلَّا لِيَعْبُدُٓوا اِلٰهاً وَاحِداًۚ لَٓا اِلٰهَ اِلَّا هُوَۜ سُبْحَانَهُ عَمَّا يُشْرِكُونَ

Ittakhathoo ahbarahumwaruhbanahum arbaban min dooni Allahi walmaseehaibna maryama wama omiroo illa liyaAAbudoo ilahanwahidan la ilaha illa huwa subhanahuAAamma yushrikoon

They take their rabbis and their religious scholars as lords rather than God, and the Messiah, son of Mary; and they were not commanded save to serve One God; there is no god save He. Glory be to Him above that to which they ascribe a partnership!

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-31.md_

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 34

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْأَحْبَارِ — l-aḥbāri · "the rabbis"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · genitive case

يَٓا اَيُّهَا الَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُٓوا اِنَّ كَث۪يراً مِنَ الْاَحْبَارِ وَالرُّهْبَانِ لَيَأْكُلُونَ اَمْوَالَ النَّاسِ بِالْبَاطِلِ وَيَصُدُّونَ عَنْ سَب۪يلِ اللّٰهِۜ وَالَّذ۪ينَ يَكْنِزُونَ الذَّهَبَ وَالْفِضَّةَ وَلَا يُنْفِقُونَهَا ف۪ي سَب۪يلِ اللّٰهِۙ فَبَشِّرْهُمْ بِعَذَابٍ اَل۪يمٍۙ

Ya ayyuha allatheena amanooinna katheeran mina al-ahbari warruhbanilaya/kuloona amwala annasi bilbatiliwayasuddoona AAan sabeeli Allahi wallatheenayaknizoona aththahaba walfiddatawala yunfiqoonaha fee sabeeli Allahifabashshirhum biAAathabin aleem

O you who heed warning: many among the rabbis and the religious scholars consume the wealth of men in vanity, and turn away from the path of God. And those who amass gold and silver and spend it not in the cause of God: give thou them tidings of a painful punishment: —

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-34.md_

### 30. Surah Ar-Rum, Verse 15

- **Form in this verse:** يُحْبَرُونَ — yuḥ'barūna · "will be delighted"
  - **Grammar:** verb · passive · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

فَاَمَّا الَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ فَهُمْ ف۪ي رَوْضَةٍ يُحْبَرُونَ

Faamma allatheena amanoowaAAamiloo assalihati fahum fee rawdatinyuhbaroon

As for those who heed warning and do righteous deeds: they will be made glad in a lush meadow;

_https://quran.so/surah-ar-rum/verse-15.md_

### 43. Surah Az-Zukhruf, Verse 70

- **Form in this verse:** تُحْبَرُونَ — tuḥ'barūna · "delighted"
  - **Grammar:** verb · passive · 2nd person, masculine, plural · present tense

اُدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ اَنْتُمْ وَاَزْوَاجُكُمْ تُحْبَرُونَ

Odkhuloo aljannata antum waazwajukumtuhbaroon

“Enter the Garden, you and your wives rejoicing!”

_https://quran.so/surah-az-zukhruf/verse-70.md_

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