قبض

1 قَبَضَهُ ذ , (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 ↓ اـِقْتَبَضَ 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.) ― -b2- 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, (tropical:) 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 ا@للّٰهُ الأَرْضَ, and السَّمَاآءَ, (assumed tropical:) 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 (tropical:) [ He arrested his debtor: used in this sense in the present day]. (A.) And قَبَضَ ا@للّٰهُ رُوحَهُ (tropical:) God took his soul. (TA.) And قَبَضَهُ ا@للّٰهُ (tropical:) God caused him to die. (Msb.) And قُبِضَ (tropical:) He (a man, S, M, A) died: (S M, A, * K:) and also (assumed tropical:) 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 (assumed tropical:) I removed him from the thing, or affair. (Msb.) ― -b3- قَبَضَهُ, aor. as above, (M, K,) and so the inf. n., (S, M, Mgh,) also signifies the (assumed tropical:) contr. of بَسَطَهُ; (S, * M, Mgh, * K;) and so ↓ قبّضهُ, (IAar, M,) inf. n. تَقْبِيضٌ. (TA.) [As such, (assumed tropical:) He contracted it; or drew it together. ] You say, قَبَضَ رِجْلَهُ وَبَسَطَهَا (tropical:) [ 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 (assumed tropical:) [ 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 (assumed tropical:) [ And they draw in their hands, or refrain, ] from expenditure, or from paying the [poor-rate called] زَكَاة. (TA.) You say also, جَنَاحَهُ ↓ قبّض (assumed tropical:) He (a bird) contracted his wing: (M:) or قَبَضَ, or قَبَضَ جَنَاحَهُ, (assumed tropical:) 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;) (tropical:) 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 الاـِبِلُ (tropical:) The camels were quick in their pace; at every spring therein, putting their legs together. (A.) And ↓ اـِنْقَبَضَ (tropical:) He, or it, (a company of men, M,) went, or journeyed, and was quick. (Lth, M, K.) And فِى فُلَانٌ ↓ اـِنْقَبَضَ حَاجَتِهِ (tropical:) Such a one was quick, and light, or active, in accomplishing his want. (A.) And قَبْضٌ also signifies i. q. نَزْوٌ (assumed tropical:) [The act of leaping, &c.]. (TA.) ― -b4- [Also, as contr. of بَسَطَهُ,] (assumed tropical:) He collected it together. (Az.) And hence, (Az,) قَبَضَ الاـِبِلَ, (Az, M,) aor. قَبِضَ , inf. n. قَبْضٌ (Az, S, M) (assumed tropical:) 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 بِهَا ↓ اـِنْقَبَضَ [signifies the same, or, agreeably with an explanation given above, (tropical:) he went quickly with them ]. (M.) And العَيْرُ يَقْبِضُ عَانَتَهُ (assumed tropical:) The he-ass drives away his she-ass. (M.) ― -b5- [As such also,] قَبَضَهُ; (A;) and ↓ قبّضهُ, (S, M, K,) inf. n. تَقْبِيضٌ; (S;) (tropical:) 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 (tropical:) He, or it, contracted, or wrinkled, his face ]. (A.) And قَبَضَتِ النَّارُ الجِلْدَةَ (tropical:) [ The fire [...]