# Ha-Ra-Se — حرث (Hrv)

> Occurs in 14 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To till and sow, cultivate, cut a thing, acquire (goods), to collect wealth, seek sustenance, work or labour, plough, study a thing thoroughly, to examine/look into/scrutinize/investigate, call a thing to mind.
- **Derived forms:** تَحْرُثُ (1) · حَرْث (13)

## Verses containing this root

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 71

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْحَرْثَ — l-ḥartha · "the field"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

قَالَ اِنَّهُ يَقُولُ اِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌ لَا ذَلُولٌ تُث۪يرُ الْاَرْضَ وَلَا تَسْقِي الْحَرْثَۚ مُسَلَّمَةٌ لَا شِيَةَ ف۪يهَاۜ قَالُوا الْـٰٔنَ جِئْتَ بِالْحَقِّۜ فَذَبَحُوهَا وَمَا كَادُوا يَفْعَلُونَ۟

Qala innahu yaqoolu innahabaqaratun la thaloolun tutheeru al-arda walatasqee alhartha musallamatun la shiyata feehaqaloo al-ana ji/ta bilhaqqi fathabahoohawama kadoo yafAAaloon

He said: “He says: ‘She is a heifer neither broken to plough the earth nor to water the tilth, perfect, no blemish on her.’” They said: “Now hast thou brought the truth.” Then they sacrificed her, but they had hardly done it.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-71.md_

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 205

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْحَرْثَ — l-ḥartha · "the crops"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

وَاِذَا تَوَلّٰى سَعٰى فِي الْاَرْضِ لِيُفْسِدَ ف۪يهَا وَيُهْلِكَ الْحَرْثَ وَالنَّسْلَۜ وَاللّٰهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَسَادَ

Wa-itha tawalla saAAafee al-ardi liyufsida feeha wayuhlika alharthawannasla wallahu la yuhibbualfasad

And when he turns away, he strives in the land working corruption therein and destroying tilth and progeny; and God loves not corruption.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-205.md_

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 223

- **Form in this verse:** حَرْثٌۭ — ḥarthun · "(are) a tilth"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

نِسَٓاؤُ۬كُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْۖ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ اَنّٰى شِئْتُمْۘ وَقَدِّمُوا لِاَنْفُسِكُمْۜ وَاتَّقُوا اللّٰهَ وَاعْلَمُٓوا اَنَّكُمْ مُلَاقُوهُۜ وَبَشِّرِ الْمُؤْمِن۪ينَ

Nisaokum harthun lakum fa/tooharthakum anna shi/tum waqaddimoo li-anfusikum wattaqooAllaha waAAlamoo annakum mulaqoohuwabashshiri almu/mineen

“Your women are a tilth for you; so come to your tilth as you will, and send ahead for your souls; and be in prudent fear of God, and know that you will meet Him.” And bear thou glad tidings to the believers.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-223.md_

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 223

- **Form in this verse:** حَرْثَكُمْ — ḥarthakum · "(to) your tilth"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

نِسَٓاؤُ۬كُمْ حَرْثٌ لَكُمْۖ فَأْتُوا حَرْثَكُمْ اَنّٰى شِئْتُمْۘ وَقَدِّمُوا لِاَنْفُسِكُمْۜ وَاتَّقُوا اللّٰهَ وَاعْلَمُٓوا اَنَّكُمْ مُلَاقُوهُۜ وَبَشِّرِ الْمُؤْمِن۪ينَ

Nisaokum harthun lakum fa/tooharthakum anna shi/tum waqaddimoo li-anfusikum wattaqooAllaha waAAlamoo annakum mulaqoohuwabashshiri almu/mineen

“Your women are a tilth for you; so come to your tilth as you will, and send ahead for your souls; and be in prudent fear of God, and know that you will meet Him.” And bear thou glad tidings to the believers.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-223.md_

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 14

- **Form in this verse:** وَٱلْحَرْثِ ۗ — wal-ḥarthi · "and [the] tilled land"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

زُيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ حُبُّ الشَّهَوَاتِ مِنَ النِّسَٓاءِ وَالْبَن۪ينَ وَالْقَنَاط۪يرِ الْمُقَنْطَرَةِ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ وَالْفِضَّةِ وَالْخَيْلِ الْمُسَوَّمَةِ وَالْاَنْعَامِ وَالْحَرْثِۜ ذٰلِكَ مَتَاعُ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَاۚ وَاللّٰهُ عِنْدَهُ حُسْنُ الْمَاٰبِ

Zuyyina linnasi hubbuashshahawati mina annisa-i walbaneenawalqanateeri almuqantarati mina aththahabiwalfiddati walkhayli almusawwamati wal-anAAamiwalharthi thalika mataAAu alhayatiaddunya wallahu AAindahu husnualmaab

Made fair for men is the love of lusts — for women, and sons, and amassed fortunes of gold and silver, and branded horses, and cattle, and tilth: that is the provision of the life of this world — but God, with Him is the best journey’s end.

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-14.md_

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 117

- **Form in this verse:** حَرْثَ — ḥartha · "(the) harvest"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

مَثَلُ مَا يُنْفِقُونَ ف۪ي هٰذِهِ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ ر۪يحٍ ف۪يهَا صِرٌّ اَصَابَتْ حَرْثَ قَوْمٍ ظَلَمُٓوا اَنْفُسَهُمْ فَاَهْلَكَتْهُۜ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اللّٰهُ وَلٰكِنْ اَنْفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ

Mathalu ma yunfiqoona fee hathihialhayati addunya kamathali reehinfeeha sirrun asabat hartha qawmin thalamooanfusahum faahlakat-hu wama thalamahumu Allahuwalakin anfusahum yathlimoon

The likeness of what they spend in the life of this world is as the likeness of a wind wherein was biting cold: it befell the tilth of a people who wronged their souls and destroyed it; and God wronged them not, but they wronged themselves.

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-117.md_

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 136

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْحَرْثِ — l-ḥarthi · "the crops"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَجَعَلُوا لِلّٰهِ مِمَّا ذَرَاَ مِنَ الْحَرْثِ وَالْاَنْعَامِ نَص۪يباً فَقَالُوا هٰذَا لِلّٰهِ بِزَعْمِهِمْ وَهٰذَا لِشُرَكَٓائِنَاۚ فَمَا كَانَ لِشُرَكَٓائِهِمْ فَلَا يَصِلُ اِلَى اللّٰهِۚ وَمَا كَانَ لِلّٰهِ فَهُوَ يَصِلُ اِلٰى شُرَكَٓائِهِمْۜ سَٓاءَ مَا يَحْكُمُونَ

WajaAAaloo lillahi mimma tharaamina alharthi wal-anAAami naseebanfaqaloo hatha lillahi bizaAAmihim wahathalishuraka-ina fama kana lishuraka-ihimfala yasilu ila Allahi wama kanalillahi fahuwa yasilu ila shuraka-ihimsaa ma yahkumoon

And they make for God, of what He creates of tilth and cattle, a portion; they say: “This is for God,” — according to their claim — “and this is for our partners”. And what is for their partners, it does not reach God; and what is for God, it reaches their partners. Evil is what they judge.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-136.md_

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 138

- **Form in this verse:** وَحَرْثٌ — waḥarthun · "and crops"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

وَقَالُوا هٰذِه۪ٓ اَنْعَامٌ وَحَرْثٌ حِجْرٌۘ لَا يَطْعَمُهَٓا اِلَّا مَنْ نَشَٓاءُ بِزَعْمِهِمْ وَاَنْعَامٌ حُرِّمَتْ ظُهُورُهَا وَاَنْعَامٌ لَا يَذْكُرُونَ اسْمَ اللّٰهِ عَلَيْهَا افْتِرَٓاءً عَلَيْهِۜ سَيَجْز۪يهِمْ بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ

Waqaloo hathihi anAAamunwaharthun hijrun la yatAAamuhailla man nashao bizaAAmihim waanAAamun hurrimatthuhooruha waanAAamun la yathkuroonaisma Allahi AAalayha iftiraan AAalayhisayajzeehim bima kanoo yaftaroon

And they say: “These cattle and tilth are taboo; none is to eat them save whom we will,” — according to their claim — “and cattle whose backs are made unlawful,” and cattle over which they remember not the name of God, as an invention against Him; He will requite them for what they invented.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-138.md_

### 21. Surah Al-Anbiya, Verse 78

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْحَرْثِ — l-ḥarthi · "the field"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَدَاوُ۫دَ وَسُلَيْمٰنَ اِذْ يَحْكُمَانِ فِي الْحَرْثِ اِذْ نَفَشَتْ ف۪يهِ غَنَمُ الْقَوْمِۚ وَكُنَّا لِحُكْمِهِمْ شَاهِد۪ينَۙ

Wadawooda wasulaymana ithyahkumani fee alharthi ith nafashatfeehi ghanamu alqawmi wakunna lihukmihim shahideen

And David and Solomon: when they passed judgment concerning the tilth, when the sheep of the people had strayed and pastured therein; and We were witnesses to their judgment.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anbiya/verse-78.md_

### 42. Surah Ash-Shuraa, Verse 20

- **Form in this verse:** حَرْثَ — ḥartha · "(the) harvest"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

مَنْ كَانَ يُر۪يدُ حَرْثَ الْاٰخِرَةِ نَزِدْ لَهُ ف۪ي حَرْثِه۪ۚ وَمَنْ كَانَ يُر۪يدُ حَرْثَ الدُّنْيَا نُؤْتِه۪ مِنْهَا وَمَا لَهُ فِي الْاٰخِرَةِ مِنْ نَص۪يبٍ

Man kana yureedu hartha al-akhiratinazid lahu fee harthihi waman kana yureedu harthaaddunya nu/tihi minha wama lahu feeal-akhirati min naseeb

Whoso desires the harvest of the Hereafter, We increase him in his harvest. And whoso desires the harvest of the World, We give him thereof — and he has no portion in the Hereafter.

_https://quran.so/surah-ash-shuraa/verse-20.md_

### 42. Surah Ash-Shuraa, Verse 20

- **Form in this verse:** حَرْثِهِۦ ۖ — ḥarthihi · "his harvest"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

مَنْ كَانَ يُر۪يدُ حَرْثَ الْاٰخِرَةِ نَزِدْ لَهُ ف۪ي حَرْثِه۪ۚ وَمَنْ كَانَ يُر۪يدُ حَرْثَ الدُّنْيَا نُؤْتِه۪ مِنْهَا وَمَا لَهُ فِي الْاٰخِرَةِ مِنْ نَص۪يبٍ

Man kana yureedu hartha al-akhiratinazid lahu fee harthihi waman kana yureedu harthaaddunya nu/tihi minha wama lahu feeal-akhirati min naseeb

Whoso desires the harvest of the Hereafter, We increase him in his harvest. And whoso desires the harvest of the World, We give him thereof — and he has no portion in the Hereafter.

_https://quran.so/surah-ash-shuraa/verse-20.md_

### 42. Surah Ash-Shuraa, Verse 20

- **Form in this verse:** حَرْثَ — ḥartha · "(the) harvest"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

مَنْ كَانَ يُر۪يدُ حَرْثَ الْاٰخِرَةِ نَزِدْ لَهُ ف۪ي حَرْثِه۪ۚ وَمَنْ كَانَ يُر۪يدُ حَرْثَ الدُّنْيَا نُؤْتِه۪ مِنْهَا وَمَا لَهُ فِي الْاٰخِرَةِ مِنْ نَص۪يبٍ

Man kana yureedu hartha al-akhiratinazid lahu fee harthihi waman kana yureedu harthaaddunya nu/tihi minha wama lahu feeal-akhirati min naseeb

Whoso desires the harvest of the Hereafter, We increase him in his harvest. And whoso desires the harvest of the World, We give him thereof — and he has no portion in the Hereafter.

_https://quran.so/surah-ash-shuraa/verse-20.md_

### 56. Surah Al-Waqi'ah, Verse 63

- **Form in this verse:** تَحْرُثُونَ — taḥruthūna · "you sow"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 2nd person, masculine, plural · present tense

اَفَرَاَيْتُمْ مَا تَحْرُثُونَۜ

Afaraaytum ma tahruthoon

Have you considered that which you sow?

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

### 68. Surah Al-Qalam, Verse 22

- **Form in this verse:** حَرْثِكُمْ — ḥarthikum · "your crop"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

اَنِ اغْدُوا عَلٰى حَرْثِكُمْ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَارِم۪ينَ

Ani ighdoo AAala harthikum inkuntum sarimeen

“Go early to your tilth, if you would be reaping!”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-qalam/verse-22.md_

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