# Kaf-Ra-Ha — قرح (qrH)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to wound/hurt, blow, sore, outer injury
- **Derived forms:** قَرْح (3)

## Verses containing this root

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 140

- **Form in this verse:** قَرْحٌۭ — qarḥun · "a wound"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

اِنْ يَمْسَسْكُمْ قَرْحٌ فَقَدْ مَسَّ الْقَوْمَ قَرْحٌ مِثْلُهُۜ وَتِلْكَ الْاَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِۚ وَلِيَعْلَمَ اللّٰهُ الَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُوا وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنْكُمْ شُهَدَٓاءَۜ وَاللّٰهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الظَّالِم۪ينَۙ

In yamsaskum qarhun faqad massaalqawma qarhun mithluhu watilka al-ayyamu nudawiluhabayna annasi waliyaAAlama Allahu allatheenaamanoo wayattakhitha minkum shuhadaa wallahula yuhibbu aththalimeen

If injury touches you: there has touched people an injury the like thereof. And those are the days We alternate among men, both that God might know those who heed warning, and take witnesses among you — and God loves not the wrongdoers —

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-140.md_

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 140

- **Form in this verse:** قَرْحٌۭ — qarḥun · "wound"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

اِنْ يَمْسَسْكُمْ قَرْحٌ فَقَدْ مَسَّ الْقَوْمَ قَرْحٌ مِثْلُهُۜ وَتِلْكَ الْاَيَّامُ نُدَاوِلُهَا بَيْنَ النَّاسِۚ وَلِيَعْلَمَ اللّٰهُ الَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُوا وَيَتَّخِذَ مِنْكُمْ شُهَدَٓاءَۜ وَاللّٰهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الظَّالِم۪ينَۙ

In yamsaskum qarhun faqad massaalqawma qarhun mithluhu watilka al-ayyamu nudawiluhabayna annasi waliyaAAlama Allahu allatheenaamanoo wayattakhitha minkum shuhadaa wallahula yuhibbu aththalimeen

If injury touches you: there has touched people an injury the like thereof. And those are the days We alternate among men, both that God might know those who heed warning, and take witnesses among you — and God loves not the wrongdoers —

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-140.md_

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 172

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْقَرْحُ ۚ — l-qarḥu · "the injury"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

اَلَّذ۪ينَ اسْتَجَابُوا لِلّٰهِ وَالرَّسُولِ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَٓا اَصَابَهُمُ الْقَرْحُۜۛ لِلَّذ۪ينَ اَحْسَنُوا مِنْهُمْ وَاتَّقَوْا اَجْرٌ عَظ۪يمٌۚ

Allatheena istajaboo lillahiwarrasooli min baAAdi ma asabahumu alqarhulillatheena ahsanoo minhum wattaqaw ajrunAAatheem

Those who responded to God and the Messenger after injury had befallen them — for those of them as do good and are in prudent fear is a great reward —

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-172.md_

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