# Kh-Lam-Ayn — خلع (xlE)

> Occurs in 1 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To pull/strip/throw/cast something off, to be removed from or divested of, to forsake allegiance/obedience to someone, to repudiate or renounce someone, to ransom off, to contend with someone, to come off or fall off, become disjointed/seperated/displaced, to go away secretly, to annull/dissolve/break a pact or covenant, divorce one's wife for a ransom given by her, grow insane or diabolically possessed, to be gripped with weakness and fear/fright, say or do what one pleases (without care or fear of blame), play in games of hazard (for stakes laid by both players to be taken by the winner), to be of vitious or immoral conduct
- **Derived forms:** ٱخْلَعْ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 20. Surah Taha, Verse 12

- **Form in this verse:** فَٱخْلَعْ — fa-ikh'laʿ · "so remove"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 2nd person, masculine, singular · imperative mood

اِنّ۪ٓي اَنَا۬ رَبُّكَ فَاخْلَعْ نَعْلَيْكَۚ اِنَّكَ بِالْوَادِ الْمُقَدَّسِ طُوًىۜ

Innee ana rabbuka fakhlaAAnaAAlayka innaka bilwadi almuqaddasi tuwa

“I am thy Lord; so remove thou thy sandals; thou art in the sacred valley of Ṭuwa.

_https://quran.so/surah-taha/verse-12.md_

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