# Lam-Kaf-Ta — لقط (lqT)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To pick up/out, take up, took it, raised it, gather, glean, collect, acquire, anything that is scattered
- **Derived forms:** ٱلْتَقَطَ (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 10

- **Form in this verse:** يَلْتَقِطْهُ — yaltaqiṭ'hu · "will pick him"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of ifti'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

قَالَ قَٓائِلٌ مِنْهُمْ لَا تَقْتُلُوا يُوسُفَ وَاَلْقُوهُ ف۪ي غَيَابَتِ الْجُبِّ يَلْتَقِطْهُ بَعْضُ السَّيَّارَةِ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ فَاعِل۪ينَ

Qala qa-ilun minhum lataqtuloo yoosufa waalqoohu fee ghayabati aljubbi yaltaqithubaAAdu assayyarati in kuntum faAAileen

Said a speaker among them: “Kill not Joseph, but cast him into the depth of the well — some caravan will gather him up — if you must act.”

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-10.md_

### 28. Surah Al-Qasas, Verse 8

- **Form in this verse:** فَٱلْتَقَطَهُۥٓ — fal-taqaṭahu · "Then picked him up"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of ifti'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · past tense

فَالْتَقَطَهُٓ اٰلُ فِرْعَوْنَ لِيَكُونَ لَهُمْ عَدُواًّ وَحَزَناًۜ اِنَّ فِرْعَوْنَ وَهَامَانَ وَجُنُودَهُمَا كَانُوا خَاطِـ۪ٔينَ

Faltaqatahu alufirAAawna liyakoona lahum AAaduwwan wahazanan innafirAAawna wahamana wajunoodahuma kanookhati-een

And there gathered him up the house of Pharaoh, that he might become for them an enemy and a grief; Pharaoh and Hāmān and their forces were offenders.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-qasas/verse-8.md_

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