# Ha-Kaf-Be — حقب (Hqb)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To be suppressed; rainless year, unproductive. Suffer suppression of urine, have difficulty in staling, suffer suppression of milk (she camel), to be delayed or withheld, to be perverted/marred/disordered/impeded, to gird a camel, bound a thing (anything) behind a camel's saddle, bear or take a burden upon oneself.
- **Derived forms:** أَحْقَاب (1) · حُقُب (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 60

- **Form in this verse:** حُقُبًۭا — ḥuquban · "(for) a long period"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَاِذْ قَالَ مُوسٰى لِفَتٰيهُ لَٓا اَبْرَحُ حَتّٰٓى اَبْلُغَ مَجْمَعَ الْبَحْرَيْنِ اَوْ اَمْضِيَ حُقُباً

Wa-ith qala moosa lifatahula abrahu hatta ablugha majmaAAa albahrayniaw amdiya huquba

And when Moses said to his servant: “I will not cease until I reach the confluence of the two seas, though I continue for an age,”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-60.md_

### 78. Surah An-Naba, Verse 23

- **Form in this verse:** أَحْقَابًۭا — aḥqāban · "(for) ages"
  - **Grammar:** adverb of time · masculine, plural · accusative case · indefinite

لَابِث۪ينَ ف۪يهَٓا اَحْقَاباًۚ

Labitheena feeha ahqaba

They will tarry therein long ages.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naba/verse-23.md_

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