# he-Vav-Ra — هور (hwr)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To fall to ruin, crumble, be about to fall, fall from a high place. He demolished or pulled down or pulled to pieces, it fell to pieces or broke down and collapsed. Both intransitive and transitive.
- **Derived forms:** هَار (1) · ٱنْهَارَ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 109

- **Form in this verse:** هَارٍۢ — hārin · "(about to) collapse"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

اَفَمَنْ اَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلٰى تَقْوٰى مِنَ اللّٰهِ وَرِضْوَانٍ خَيْرٌ اَمْ مَنْ اَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلٰى شَفَا جُرُفٍ هَارٍ فَانْهَارَ بِه۪ ف۪ي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَۜ وَاللّٰهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِم۪ينَ

Afaman assasa bunyanahu AAalataqwa mina Allahi waridwanin khayrunam man assasa bunyanahu AAala shafa jurufinharin fanhara bihi fee narijahannama wallahu la yahdee alqawma aththalimeen

Is then he who founded his building on prudent fear of God and His approval better, or he who founded his building on the edge of a collapsing cliff, so it collapsed with him into the fire of Gehenna? And God guides not the wrongdoing people.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-109.md_

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 109

- **Form in this verse:** فَٱنْهَارَ — fa-in'hāra · "so it collapsed"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of infi'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · past tense

اَفَمَنْ اَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلٰى تَقْوٰى مِنَ اللّٰهِ وَرِضْوَانٍ خَيْرٌ اَمْ مَنْ اَسَّسَ بُنْيَانَهُ عَلٰى شَفَا جُرُفٍ هَارٍ فَانْهَارَ بِه۪ ف۪ي نَارِ جَهَنَّمَۜ وَاللّٰهُ لَا يَهْدِي الْقَوْمَ الظَّالِم۪ينَ

Afaman assasa bunyanahu AAalataqwa mina Allahi waridwanin khayrunam man assasa bunyanahu AAala shafa jurufinharin fanhara bihi fee narijahannama wallahu la yahdee alqawma aththalimeen

Is then he who founded his building on prudent fear of God and His approval better, or he who founded his building on the edge of a collapsing cliff, so it collapsed with him into the fire of Gehenna? And God guides not the wrongdoing people.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-109.md_

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