How many times is Dates and Date Palms mentioned in the Qur’an?

What was counted

Most mentions: Al-An'am (2), Maryam (2), Ar-Rahman (2), Al-Kahf (1), Ta-Ha (1).

Every mention

• 6:99 · Al-An'amٱلنَّخْلِ the date-palmAnd it is He who sends down rain from the sky, and We produce thereby the growth of all things. We produce from it greenery from which We produce grains arranged in layers. And from the palm trees - of its emerging fruit are clusters hanging low. And [We produce] gardens of grapevines and olives and pomegranates, similar yet varied. Look at [each of] its fruit when it yields and [at] its ripening. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe.
• 6:141 · Al-An'amوَٱلنَّخْلَ and the date-palmAnd He it is who causes gardens to grow, [both] trellised and untrellised, and palm trees and crops of different [kinds of] food and olives and pomegranates, similar and dissimilar. Eat of [each of] its fruit when it yields and give its due [zakah] on the day of its harvest. And be not excessive. Indeed, He does not like those who commit excess.
• 18:32 · Al-Kahfبِنَخْلٍۢ with date-palmsAnd present to them an example of two men: We granted to one of them two gardens of grapevines, and We bordered them with palm trees and placed between them [fields of] crops.
• 19:23 · Maryamٱلنَّخْلَةِ (of) the date-palmAnd the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."
• 19:25 · Maryamٱلنَّخْلَةِ (of) the date-palmAnd shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree; it will drop upon you ripe, fresh dates.
• 20:71 · Ta-Haٱلنَّخْلِ (of) date-palms[Pharaoh] said, "You believed him before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic. So I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of palm trees, and you will surely know which of us is more severe in [giving] punishment and more enduring."
• 26:148 · Ash-Shu'araوَنَخْلٍۢ and date-palmsAnd fields of crops and palm trees with softened fruit?
• 50:10 · Qafوَٱلنَّخْلَ And the palms treesAnd lofty palm trees having fruit arranged in layers -
• 54:20 · Al-Qamarنَخْلٍۢ (of) date-palmsExtracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.
• 55:11 · Ar-Rahmanوَٱلنَّخْلُ and date-palmsTherein is fruit and palm trees having sheaths [of dates]
• 55:68 · Ar-Rahmanوَنَخْلٌۭ and date-palmsIn both of them are fruit and palm trees and pomegranates.
• 69:7 · Al-Haqqahنَخْلٍ (of) date-palmsWhich Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.
• 80:29 · Abasaوَنَخْلًۭا and date-palmsAnd olive and palm trees

How we count

Each Qur’an word built on the words above counts once, in any form (singular, dual or plural, with or without prefixes such as wa- or al-). Counts published elsewhere often differ because they count different forms or phrases. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. Verse translation: Saheeh International.

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