# Sin-Ha-Te — سحت (sHt)

> Occurs in 4 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To uproot, to consume, to sweep away, to destroy, to scrape off, to demolish completely, to ruin, illegal money, forbidden earnings, bribe
- **Derived forms:** سُّحْت (3) · يُسْحِتَ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 5. Surah Al-Ma'idah, Verse 42

- **Form in this verse:** لِلسُّحْتِ ۚ — lilssuḥ'ti · "of the forbidden"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

سَمَّاعُونَ لِلْكَذِبِ اَكَّالُونَ لِلسُّحْتِۜ فَاِنْ جَٓاؤُ۫كَ فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ اَوْ اَعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْۚ وَاِنْ تُعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْ فَلَنْ يَضُرُّوكَ شَيْـٔاًۜ وَاِنْ حَكَمْتَ فَاحْكُمْ بَيْنَهُمْ بِالْقِسْطِۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ يُحِبُّ الْمُقْسِط۪ينَ

SammaAAoona lilkathibi akkaloonalissuhti fa-in jaooka fahkumbaynahum aw aAArid AAanhum wa-in tuAArid AAanhumfalan yadurrooka shay-an wa-in hakamta fahkumbaynahum bilqisti inna Allaha yuhibbualmuqsiteen

Eager listeners to lies; hearty consumers of illicit gain. And if they come to thee, judge thou between them, or turn thou away from them; if thou turnest away from them, they will not harm thee at all; but if thou judgest, judge thou between them with equity; God loves the equitable.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-maidah/verse-42.md_

### 5. Surah Al-Ma'idah, Verse 62

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلسُّحْتَ ۚ — l-suḥ'ta · "the forbidden"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

وَتَرٰى كَث۪يراً مِنْهُمْ يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْاِثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَانِ وَاَكْلِهِمُ السُّحْتَۜ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

Watara katheeran minhum yusariAAoonafee al-ithmi walAAudwani waaklihimu assuhtalabi/sa ma kanoo yaAAmaloon

And thou seest many of them competing in sin and enmity and their consumption of illicit gain; evil is what they do.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-maidah/verse-62.md_

### 5. Surah Al-Ma'idah, Verse 63

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلسُّحْتَ ۚ — l-suḥ'ta · "(of) the forbidden"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

لَوْلَا يَنْهٰيهُمُ الرَّبَّانِيُّونَ وَالْاَحْبَارُ عَنْ قَوْلِهِمُ الْاِثْمَ وَاَكْلِهِمُ السُّحْتَۜ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا يَصْنَعُونَ

Lawla yanhahumu arrabbaniyyoonawal-ahbaru AAan qawlihimu al-ithmawaaklihimu assuhta labi/sa ma kanooyasnaAAoon

Oh, that the rabbis and the religious scholars had but forbidden their speaking sin and their consumption of illicit gain! Evil is what they were working.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-maidah/verse-63.md_

### 20. Surah Taha, Verse 61

- **Form in this verse:** فَيُسْحِتَكُم — fayus'ḥitakum · "lest He will destroy you"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

قَالَ لَهُمْ مُوسٰى وَيْلَكُمْ لَا تَفْتَرُوا عَلَى اللّٰهِ كَذِباً فَيُسْحِتَكُمْ بِعَذَابٍۚ وَقَدْ خَابَ مَنِ افْتَرٰى

Qala lahum moosa waylakum lataftaroo AAala Allahi kathiban fayushitakumbiAAathabin waqad khaba mani iftara

Moses said to them: “Woe to you! Invent not a lie against God lest He utterly destroy you with a punishment; and he has failed who invents.”

_https://quran.so/surah-taha/verse-61.md_

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