Qur'an Gateway | Examine Root: خسف (khsf)

Examining Root: خسف (khsf)

Definition:
To sink or go away into the ground or earth (place or person), become depressed (such as the eye becoming depressed in the head), to lose sight/become blind, to lose light (like the sun or moon during an eclipse), become defective or deficient, become lean or emaciated, to recover (such as from disease or illness), to put out one's eye, make a hole in a thing, to abase or humble or make lowly, to disgrace, to be vile.

Total Qur’anic Occurrences: 8

Lemma Based on This Root: 1

خَسَفَ khasafa (8 occurrences)

Breakdown of Appearances

Verb: 8

Form
I:	8
II:	0
III:	0
IV:	0
V:	0
VI:	0
VII:	0
VIII:	0
VIX:	0
IX:	0
XI:	0
XII:	0

Gender
Masculine:	5
Feminine:	0
Unassigned:	3

Person
1st:	3
2nd:	0
3rd:	5

Number
Singular:	5
Dual:	0
Plural:	3

Formula
Appears in 36 Root-Based Formulae and lies behind 22 Lemma-Based Formulae
Root Formulae	Root-Plus-Particle-Pronoun Formulae	Lemma Formulae
Length 3: 0 Length 4: 0 Length 5: 0	Length 3: 3 Length 4: 5 Length 5: 0	Length 3: 6 Length 4: 8 Length 5: 8

Glosses for this Root
He will cause to swallow (x3) We (could) cause to swallow them (x1) He would have caused it to swallow us (x1) And becomes dark (x1)	We caused to swallow (x1) Then We caused to swallow up (x1)

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