# Ra-Gayn-Dal — رغد (rgd)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To abound in good thing, eat freely and plentifully, live in ease and affluence, be ample and pleasant (life).
- **Derived forms:** رَغَد (3)

## Verses containing this root

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 35

- **Form in this verse:** رَغَدًا — raghadan · "freely"
  - **Grammar:** adjective · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَقُلْنَا يَٓا اٰدَمُ اسْكُنْ اَنْتَ وَزَوْجُكَ الْجَنَّةَ وَكُلَا مِنْهَا رَغَداً حَيْثُ شِئْتُمَاۖ وَلَا تَقْرَبَا هٰذِهِ الشَّجَرَةَ فَتَكُونَا مِنَ الظَّالِم۪ينَ

Waqulna ya adamu oskunanta wazawjuka aljannata wakula minha raghadan haythushi/tuma wala taqraba hathihi ashshajaratafatakoona mina aththalimeen

And We said: “O Adam: dwell thou and thy wife in the garden, and eat thereof freely wheresoever you will; but approach not this tree lest you be of the wrongdoers.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-35.md_

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 58

- **Form in this verse:** رَغَدًۭا — raghadan · "abundantly"
  - **Grammar:** adjective · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَاِذْ قُلْنَا ادْخُلُوا هٰذِهِ الْقَرْيَةَ فَكُلُوا مِنْهَا حَيْثُ شِئْتُمْ رَغَداً وَادْخُلُوا الْبَابَ سُجَّداً وَقُولُوا حِطَّةٌ نَغْفِرْ لَكُمْ خَطَايَاكُمْۜ وَسَنَز۪يدُ الْمُحْسِن۪ينَ

Wa-ith qulna odkhuloo hathihialqaryata fakuloo minha haythu shi/tum raghadan wadkhulooalbaba sujjadan waqooloo hittatun naghfirlakum khatayakum wasanazeedu almuhsineen

And when We said: “Enter this city, and eat freely of it wheresoever you will. And enter the gate in submission, and say: ‘A mitigation!’ We will forgive you your offences, and will increase the doers of good.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-58.md_

### 16. Surah An-Nahl, Verse 112

- **Form in this verse:** رَغَدًۭا — raghadan · "(in) abundance"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَضَرَبَ اللّٰهُ مَثَلاً قَرْيَةً كَانَتْ اٰمِنَةً مُطْمَئِنَّةً يَأْت۪يهَا رِزْقُهَا رَغَداً مِنْ كُلِّ مَكَانٍ فَكَفَرَتْ بِاَنْعُمِ اللّٰهِ فَاَذَاقَهَا اللّٰهُ لِبَاسَ الْجُوعِ وَالْخَوْفِ بِمَا كَانُوا يَصْنَعُونَ

Wadaraba Allahu mathalanqaryatan kanat aminatan mutma-innatanya/teeha rizquha raghadan min kulli makaninfakafarat bi-anAAumi Allahi faathaqaha Allahulibasa aljooAAi walkhawfi bima kanooyasnaAAoon

And God strikes a similitude: — a city secure, at peace, its provision coming to it in abundance from every side; but it denied the favours of God, then God let it taste the cloak of hunger and fear because of what they wrought.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nahl/verse-112.md_

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