# Cim-Ra-Dal — جرد (jrd)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** Strip/divest/denude a thing or person, pull off or remove a thing, to peel a thing off, prune or bare a thing, unsheath or draw forth (a sword), detach a thing, perform a rite or ceremony, take from someone against his will, devote or apply oneself diligently and exclusively.
- **Derived forms:** جَرَاد (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 133

- **Form in this verse:** وَٱلْجَرَادَ — wal-jarāda · "and the locusts"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

فَاَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمُ الطُّوفَانَ وَالْجَرَادَ وَالْقُمَّلَ وَالضَّفَادِعَ وَالدَّمَ اٰيَاتٍ مُفَصَّلَاتٍ فَاسْتَكْبَرُوا وَكَانُوا قَوْماً مُجْرِم۪ينَ

Faarsalna AAalayhimu attoofanawaljarada walqummala waddafadiAAawaddama ayatin mufassalatinfastakbaroo wakanoo qawman mujrimeen

And We sent upon them the flood, and the locusts, and the lice, and the frogs, and the blood — proofs set out and detailed — but they had waxed proud and were a people of lawbreakers.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-133.md_

### 54. Surah Al-Qamar, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** جَرَادٌۭ — jarādun · "locusts"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

خُشَّعاً اَبْصَارُهُمْ يَخْرُجُونَ مِنَ الْاَجْدَاثِ كَاَنَّهُمْ جَرَادٌ مُنْتَشِرٌۙ

KhushshaAAan absaruhum yakhrujoonamina al-ajdathi kaannahum jaradun muntashir

Their eyes humbled, they will come forth from the graves like locusts spreading,

_https://quran.so/surah-al-qamar/verse-7.md_

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