muḍāriʿـِيَفْعِلُmaṣdarقَبْضٌ
Core sense — he grasped it, took it with his hand; he contracted it; he straitened itgenerated
1.1he took it with his hand, by actual touch—قَبَضَهُ بِيَدِهِ
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Or: he closed his hand upon it; he grasped it, griped it, clutched it, seized it; or he took it with the whole of his hand; or it is the same as أَجَذَهُ: he took it in any manner, he took it with his hand, he took possession of it, and he received it.
he grasped it, laid hold of it, or seized it with his hand—قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ
Synonym أَمْسَكَهُ; or he seized it with the whole of his hand; or he closed, or contracted, his fingers upon it.
he grasped it, laid hold of it, or seized it with his hand—بِهِ
he grasped it, laid hold of it, or seized it with his hand—قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ بِيَدَهِ
MF mentions that some assert قَبْضٌ to mean taking with the ends of the fingers; but this is a miscopying for قَبْضٌ, with the unpointed ص. Elsewhere in this article تَقْبِيضٌ is given that same meaning, but that too is clearly a miscopying, for تَقْبِيضٌ.
he took, or received, the commodity, or the goods—قَبَضَ المَتَاعَ
he took, or received, the debt from him—قَبَضَ مِنْهُ الدَّيْنَ
So in the article قضى and elsewhere.
and I took a handful of the dust from the footstep of the hoof of the horse of the messenger [Gabriel]—فَقَبَضْتُ قَبْضَةً مِنْ أَثَرِ الرَّسُولِ
In the Qurʾān 20:96; according to an extraordinary reading, قَبِيضَةً.
إِقْتَبَضَ مِنْ أَتَرِهِ قَبْضَةً means the same as قَبَضَ, and قَبَصَ is said to be a dialectal variant of it.
he collected the bird in his grasp—قَبَضَ الطَّائِرَ
he grasped, or laid hold of, the mane of the horse—قَبَضَ عَلَى عُرْفِ الفَرَسِ
1.1.1figurative · مجاز — inferredI took, or got, possession of the land—قَبَضْتُ الأَرْضَ
I took, or got, possession of the house—الدَّارَ
God will gather together the earth—يَقْبِضُ ٱللّٰهُ الأَرْضَ
In a tradition; within his sole possession — see قُبْضَةٌ.
God will gather together the heaven—السَّمَآءَ
Also used figuratively of having absolute property in a thing, to dispose of it at will, without respect to the hand.
he arrested his debtor—قَبَضَ عَلَى غَرِيمِهِ
Used in this sense at the present day.
God took his soul—قَبَضَ ٱللّٰهُ رُوحَهُ
God caused him to die—قَبَضَهُ ٱللّٰهُ
he died—قُبِضَ
Said of a man; and also, said of a sick man: he was at the point of death, having his soul taken, in the agony of death.
I removed him from the thing, or affair—قَبَضْتُهُ عَنِ الأَمْرِ
1.1.2figurative · مجاز — inferredhe contracted it, or drew it together—قَبَضَهُ
Muḍāriʿ and maṣdar as above; the opposite of بَسَطَهُ.
he contracted it, or drew it together—قبّضهُ
Maṣdar تَقْبِيضٌ.
he contracted his leg, and extended it—قَبَضَ رِجْلَهُ وَبَسَطَهَا
he clenched his hand—قَبَضَ كَفَّهُ
So in the article برجم.
he drew in his hand from it—قَبَضَ يَدَهُ عَنْهُ
and they draw in their hands, or refrain—وَيَقْبِضُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ
Or: he refrained from laying hold of it.
In the Qurʾān 9:68, meaning they refrain from spending, or from paying the poor-rate called زَكَاة.
he contracted his wing—قبّض جَنَاحَهُ
he contracted his wing to fly—قَبَضَ
he contracted his wing to fly—قَبَضَ جَنَاحَهُ
he was quick in flight, or in going or pace—قَبَضَ
and, for the other form, قَبَاضَةٌ and قَبَاضٌ.
he was quick in flight, or in going or pace—قَبُضَ
Said of a bird.
Said of a bird, and of a horse, and of a man, or of another animal.
يَقْبِضْنَ, said of birds in the Qurʾān 67:19, is said to be an example of this meaning.
the camels were quick in their pace—قَبَضَتِ الإِبِلُ
they went, or journeyed, and were quick—إِنْقَبَضَ
such a one was quick, and light or active, in accomplishing his want—إِنْقَبَضَ فِى فُلَانٌ حَاجَتِهِ
At every spring in it, putting their legs together.
Said of a company of men.
قَبْضٌ also means the same as نَزْوٌ, the act of leaping and the like.
1.1.3figurative · مجاز — inferredhe drove the camels violently, roughly, or quickly—قَبَضَ الإِبِلَ
Also, as the opposite of بَسَطَهُ: he collected it together.
So called because the driver collects them together when he wants to drive them; when they scatter away from him, driving them is difficult.
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he drove them so; or, as explained above, he went quickly with them—إِنْقَبَضَ بِهَا
the he-ass drives away his she-ass—العَيْرُ يَقْبِضُ عَانَتَهُ
1.1.4figurative · مجاز — inferredhe, or it, drew it together, contracted it, shrank it, or wrinkled it—قَبَضَهُ
he, or it, drew it together, contracted it, shrank it, or wrinkled it—قبّضهُ
Maṣdar تَقْبِيضٌ.
he, or it, contracted, or wrinkled, his face—قَبَضَ وَجْهَهُ
the fire shrank, or shrivelled, the piece of skin—قَبَضَتِ النَّارُ الجِلْدَةَ
he contracted, or wrinkled, the part between his eyes—قَبَّضَ مَا بَيْنِ عَيْنَيْهِ
a day that contracts, or wrinkles, the part between the eyes—يَوْمٌ يُقَبِّضُ مَا بَيْنَ العَيْنَيْنِ
a day that contracts the bowels—يَوْمٌ يُقَبِّضُ الحَشَى
it astringed, or constipated—قَبَضَ
A metonymic phrase, denoting violent fear, or violent war.
Said of a medicine, or food, and the like; muḍāriʿ and maṣdar as first mentioned. Also said of food: it was astringent in taste; likewise تَقَبَّضَ.
1.1.5figurative · مجاز — inferredhe straitened it, scanted it, or made it scanty—قَبَضَهُ
God straitened, scanted, or made scanty the means of subsistence—قَبَضَ ٱللّٰهُ الرِزْقَ
Muḍāriʿ and maṣdar as first mentioned.
and God straitens the means of subsistence to whom He will, and makes them ample—وَٱللّٰهُ يَقْبِضُ وَيَبْسُطُ
In the Qurʾān 2:246: He straitens, or withholds, the means of subsistence from whom He will, and enlarges or makes them plentiful to whom He will.
1.1.6figurative · مجازsuch a one enlarges the liberty of his slaves, then abridges it—فُلَانٌ يَبْسُطُ غَبِيدَهُ ثُمَّ يَقْبِضُهُمْ
As such also: he abridged his liberty.
1.1.7figurative · مجازwhat distresses you, or grieves you, distresses or grieves me; and what rejoices you rejoices me—إِنَّهُ يَقْبِضُنِى مَا يَقْبِضُكَ وَيَبْسُطُنِى مَا يَبْسُطُكَ
Fátimeh is as though she were a part of me: what has distressed her distresses me, and what has rejoiced her rejoices me—فَاطِمَةُ مِنِّى يَقْبِضُنِى مَا قَبَضَهَا وَيَبْسُطُنِى مَا بَسَطَهاَ
As such also: he, or it, contracted his heart; that is, distressed him, or grieved him.
Related in a tradition, as said by Mohammad.
Or the phrase إِنَّهُ لَيَقْبِضُنِى مَا قَبَضَكَ, mentioned by Lth, means: what has annoyed and angered you annoys and angers me.
قَبْضٌ and بَسْطٌ are terms applied by the investigators of truth among the Ṣūfīs to two opposite states of the heart, from both of which it is seldom or never free. The first is an affection of the heart that keeps it from expansion and joy, whether its cause is known, such as the remembrance of a sin, an offence, or an omission, or is not known; and some of them make further divisions of it.
you shrank from us; and what made you shrink?—اِنْقَبَضْتُ عَنَّا فَمَا قَبَضَكَ
1.1.8figurative · مجازwealth makes him close-fisted, or niggardly; and poverty makes him open-handed, or generous—الخَيْرُ يَقْبِضُهُ وَالشَّرُّ يَبْسُطُهُ
As such also: he, or it, made him close-fisted, tenacious, or niggardly.
Qur’ānic occurrences Form 1
2:245
مَّن ذَا ٱلَّذِى يُقْرِضُ ٱللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًا فَيُضَـٰعِفَهُۥ لَهُۥٓ أَضْعَافًا كَثِيرَةً ۚ وَٱللَّهُ يَقْبِضُ وَيَبْصُۜطُ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَWho is he that will loan to Allah a beautiful loan, which Allah will double unto his credit and multiply many times? It is Allah that giveth (you) Want or plenty, and to Him shall be your return.
9:67
ٱلْمُنَـٰفِقُونَ وَٱلْمُنَـٰفِقَـٰتُ بَعْضُهُم مِّنۢ بَعْضٍ ۚ يَأْمُرُونَ بِٱلْمُنكَرِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ ٱلْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَقْبِضُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ ۚ نَسُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ فَنَسِيَهُمْ ۗ إِنَّ ٱلْمُنَـٰفِقِينَ هُمُ ٱلْفَـٰسِقُونَThe Hypocrites, men and women, (have an understanding) with each other: They enjoin evil, and forbid what is just, and are close with their hands. They have forgotten Allah; so He hath forgotten them. Verily the Hypocrites are rebellious and perverse.
20:96
قَالَ بَصُرْتُ بِمَا لَمْ يَبْصُرُوا۟ بِهِۦ فَقَبَضْتُ قَبْضَةً مِّنْ أَثَرِ ٱلرَّسُولِ فَنَبَذْتُهَا وَكَذَٰلِكَ سَوَّلَتْ لِى نَفْسِىHe replied: "I saw what they saw not: so I took a handful (of dust) from the footprint of the Messenger, and threw it (into the calf): thus did my soul suggest to me."
25:46
ثُمَّ قَبَضْنَـٰهُ إِلَيْنَا قَبْضًا يَسِيرًاThen We draw it in towards Ourselves,- a contraction by easy stages.
67:19
أَوَلَمْ يَرَوْا۟ إِلَى ٱلطَّيْرِ فَوْقَهُمْ صَـٰٓفَّـٰتٍ وَيَقْبِضْنَ ۚ مَا يُمْسِكُهُنَّ إِلَّا ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنُ ۚ إِنَّهُۥ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍۭ بَصِيرٌDo they not observe the birds above them, spreading their wings and folding them in? None can uphold them except (Allah) Most Gracious: Truly (Allah) Most Gracious: Truly it is He that watches over all things.
Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.
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, (S, M, A, Mgh, Msb,) or قَبَضَهُ بِيَدِهِ , (O, K,) aor. قَبِضَ , (A, Msb, K,) inf. n. قَبْضٌ , (S, Msb,) He took it with his hand, (A, O, K,) by actual touch, or feel: (O:) or the former signifies he closed his hand upon it: (Lth:) [he grasped it; griped it; clutched it; seized it:] or he took it with the whole of his hand: (Bd, xx. 96:) or i. q. أَجَذَهُ [he took it in any manner: he took it with his hand: he took possession of it: and he received it]: (S, M, Mgh, Msb:) and قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ , and بِهِ , (M,) or قَبَضَ عَلَيْهِ بِيَدَهِ , (A, Mgh, Msb, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M,) he grasped it, clutched it, laid hold upon it, or seized it, with his hand; syn. أَمْسَكَهُ : (A, K:) or he seized it ( أَنْحَى عَلَيْهِ ) with the whole of his hand: (M:) or he closed, or contracted, his fingers upon it: (Mgh, Msb:) it is also said, by MF, that some assert قَبْضٌ to signify the “ taking with the ends of the fingers; ” but this is a mistranscription, for قَبْضٌ , with the unpointed ص . (TA [in which it is said, in another place in this art., that تَقْبِيضٌ has also this last signification; but this is evidently, in like manner, a mistranscription, for تَقْبِيضٌ .]) You say, قَبَضَ المَتَاعَ [He took, or received, the commodity, or the commodities, or goods]. (A.) And قَبَضَ مِنْهُ الدَّيْنَ [He took, or received, from him the debt]. (M, K, in art. قضى ; &c.). And it is said in the Kur, [xx. 96,] فَقَبَضْتُ قَبْضَةً مِنْ أَثَرِ الرَّسُولِ , (M,) and, accord. to an extraordinary reading, قَبِيضَةً , (B,) meaning [And I took a handful] of the dust from the footstep of the hoof of the horse of the messenger [Gabriel]: (IJ, M:) and إِقْتَبَضَ مِنْ أَتَرِهِ قَبْضَةً signifies the same as قَبَضَ : and قَبَصَ [q. v.] is [said to be] a dial. form thereof. (TA.) And you say, قَبَضَ الطَّائِرَ He collected, or comprehended, the bird in his grasp. (A.) And قَبَضَ عَلَى عُرْفِ الفَرَسِ [He grasped, or laid hold upon, the mane of the horse]. (A.) It is also used metaphorically, to denote the having an absolute property in a thing, to dispose of it at pleasure, without respect to the hand; as in the phrase قَبَضْتُ الأَرْضَ , and الدَّارَ , I had, or took, or got, possession of the land, and of the house. (TA.) And [in like manner] it is said in a trad., يَقْبِضُ ٱللّٰهُ الأَرْضَ , and السَّمَآءَ , God will comprehend, or collect together, [within his sole possession, (see قُبْضَةٌ ,)] the earth, and the heaven. (TA.) [In like manner] you say also, قَبَضَ عَلَى غَرِيمِهِ [He arrested his debtor: used in this sense in the present day]. (A.) And قَبَضَ ٱللّٰهُ رُوحَهُ God took his soul. (TA.) And قَبَضَهُ ٱللّٰهُ God caused him to die. (Msb.) And قُبِضَ He (a man, S, M, A) died: (S M, A, * K:) and also he (a sick man) was at the point of death; in the state of having his soul taken; in the agony of death. (L, TA.) And قَبَضْتُهُ عَنِ الأَمْرِ I removed him from the thing, or affair. (Msb.) قَبَضَهُ , aor. as above, (M, K,) and so the inf. n., (S, M, Mgh,) also signifies the contr. of بَسَطَهُ ; (S, * M, Mgh, * K;) and so قبّضهُ , (IAar, M,) inf. n. تَقْبِيضٌ . (TA.) [As such, He contracted it; or drew it together.] You say, قَبَضَ رِجْلَهُ وَبَسَطَهَا [He contracted his leg, and extended it]. (A.) And قَبَضَ كَفَّهُ [He clenched his hand]. (S, Mgh, Msb, K, in art. برجم .). And قَبَضَ يَدَهُ عَنْهُ [He drew in his hand from it: or] he refrained from laying hold upon it. (K.) Whence the saying in the Kur, [ix. 68,] وَيَقْبِضُونَ أَيْدِيَهُمْ , meaning [And they draw in their hands, or refrain,] from expenditure, or from paying the [poor-rate called] زَكَاة . (TA.) You say also, قبّض جَنَاحَهُ He (a bird) contracted his wing: (M:) or قَبَضَ , or قَبَضَ جَنَاحَهُ , he contracted his wing to fly. (TA.) And hence, (TA,) قَبَضَ , aor. as above; (S, K;) or قَبُضَ (M;) [or both;] inf. n. [of the former] قَبْضٌ (S, K,) and [of the latter, as indicated in the M,] قَبَاضَةٌ (S, M, A, K) and قَبَاضٌ ; (M;) He (a bird, S, K, and a horse, A, and a man, S, or other [animal], K,) was quick, (S, M, A, K,) in flight, or in going or pace. (K.) يَقْبِضْنَ , said of birds, in the Kur, [lxvii. 19,] is [said to be] an ex. of this signification. (S, K. *) You say also, قَبَضَتِ الإِبِلُ The camels were quick in their pace; at every spring therein, putting their legs together. (A.) And إِنْقَبَضَ He, or it, (a company of men, M,) went, or journeyed, and was quick. (Lth, M, K.) And إِنْقَبَضَ فِى فُلَانٌ حَاجَتِهِ Such a one was quick, and light, or active, in accomplishing his want. (A.) And قَبْضٌ also signifies i. q. نَزْوٌ [The act of leaping, &c.]. (TA.) [Also, as contr. of بَسَطَهُ ,] He collected it together. (Az.) And hence, (Az,) قَبَضَ الإِبِلَ , (Az, M,) aor. قَبِضَ , inf. n. قَبْضٌ (Az, S, M) He drove (Az, S, M) the camels violently, or roughly, (Az, M.) or quickly: (S:) because the driver collects them together, when he desires to drive them; for when they disperse themselves from him, the driving of them is difficult: (Az, TA:) and إِنْقَبَضَ بِهَا [signifies the same, or, agreeably with an explanation given above, he went quickly with them]. (M.) And العَيْرُ يَقْبِضُ عَانَتَهُ The he-ass drives away his she-ass. (M.) [As such also,] قَبَضَهُ ; (A;) and قبّضهُ , (S, M, K,) inf. n. تَقْبِيضٌ ; (S;) He, or it, drew it, collected it, or gathered it, together; contracted it, shrank it, or wrinkled it. (S, M, A, * K.) You say, قَبَضَ وَجْهَهُ He, or it, contracted, or wrinkled, his face]. (A.) And قَبَضَتِ النَّارُ الجِلْدَةَ [The fire contracted, shrank, or shrivelled, the piece of skin]. (A.) And قَبَّضَ مَا بَيْنِ عَيْنَيْهِ He contracted, or wrinkled, the part between his eyes. (M, TA.) And يَوْمٌ يُقَبِّضُ مَا بَيْنَ العَيْنَيْنِ [A day that contracts, or wrinkles, the part between the eyes]; a metonymical phrase, denoting vehemence of fear, or of war. (M, TA. *) And in like manner you say, يَوْمٌ يُقَبِّضُ الحَشَى [A day that contracts the bowels]. (M.) [And hence قَبَضَ , aor. and inf. n. as first mentioned, It (a medicine, or food, &c.,) astringed, or constipated. And It (food) was astringent in taste; as also تَقَبَّضَ .] As such also, قَبَضَهُ , signifies He straitened it; scanted it; made it scanty. (Msb, TA.) You say, قَبَضَ ٱللّٰهُ الرِزْقَ , aor. and inf. n. as first mentioned, God straitened, scanted, or made scanty, the means of subsistence. (Msb.) And it is said in the Kur, [ii. 246,] وَٱللّٰهُ يَقْبِضُ وَيَبْسُطُ And God straitens, or scants, or makes scanty, the means of subsistence, to some, (Bd, Msb, * TA, *) or withholds the means of subsistence from whom He will, (Jel,) and amplifies, enlarges, or makes ample or plentiful, the same, (Bd, Msb, Jel, TA,) to some, (Bd, TA,) or to whom He will. (Jel.) [As such also, He abridged his liberty.] You say, فُلَانٌ يَبْسُطُ غَبِيدَهُ ثُمَّ يَقْبِضُهُمْ [Such a one enlarges the liberty of his slaves; then abridges their liberty]. (A.) [As such also, He, or it, contracted his heart; i. e. distressed him; grieved him.] You say, إِنَّهُ يَقْبِضُنِى مَا يَقْبِضُكَ وَيَبْسُطُنِى مَا يَبْسُطُكَ Verily what distresses thee, or grieves thee, distresses, or grieves, me; and what rejoices thee rejoices me]. (A.) [And it is related in a trad., that Mohammad said, فَاطِمَةُ مِنِّى يَقْبِضُنِى مَا قَبَضَهَا وَيَبْسُطُنِى مَا بَسَطَهاَ [Fátimeh is as though she were a part of me: what hath distressed her, or grieved her, distresses, or grieves, me; and what hath rejoiced her rejoices me]. (TA.) Or the phrase إِنَّهُ لَيَقْبِضُنِى مَا قَبَضَكَ , mentioned by Lth, means Verily what hath annoyed and angered thee annoys and angers me. (Az, TA.) قَبْضٌ and بَسْطٌ are terms applied by the investigators of truth among the Soofees to two contrary states of the heart, from both of which it is seldom or never free: the former being an affection of the heart withholding it from dilatation and joy; whether the cause thereof be known, as the remembrance of a sin or an offence, or of an omission, or be not known; and some of them make other divisions thereof. (TA.) [In like manner] you say also, اِنْقَبَضْتُ عَنَّا فَمَا قَبَضَكَ [Thou shrankest from us: and what made thee to shrink?]. (A.) [As such also, He, or it, made him close-fisted, tenacious, or niggardly.] You say, الخَيْرُ يَقْبِضُهُ وَالشَّرُّ يَبْسُطُهُ [Wealth makes him close-fisted, tenacious, or niggardly; and poverty makes him open-handed, liberal, or generous]. (A.)