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إِبْتَهَلَ

Root: بهل

Form: 8

Full Definition

إِبْتَهَلَVIII see 3.
2 [Hence,] ابتهل, or ابتهل فِى الدَّعَآءِ, He humbled, or abased, himself; or addressed himself with earnest, or energetic, supplication; syn. تَضَرَّعَ; إِلَى ٱللّٰهِ to God: he strove, or was earnest, or energetic, in prayer, or supplication; and was sincere, or without hypocrisy, therein; with a striving, or an earnestness, or energy, like that of the مُبْتَهِلُونَ [properly so called, i. e., persons who join in imprecating a curse upon such of them as is the wrongdoer]. It is said that ثُمَّ نَبْتَهِلْ, in the Kur [iii. 54, of which one explanation has been given above, ] means Then let us be sincere, or without hypocrisy, in prayer, or supplication; and let us strive, or be earnest, or energetic: or let us humble, or abase, ourselves; &c.; syn. نَتَضَرَّعْ.


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