ب غ ت Root b-gh-t in the Qur’an 13 occurrences in 13 verses

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بَغْتَة 13 times

• 6:31 · Al-An'amبَغْتَةًۭ suddenlyThose will have lost who deny the meeting with Allah, until when the Hour [of resurrection] comes upon them unexpectedly, they will say, "Oh, [how great is] our regret over what we neglected concerning it," while they bear their burdens on their backs. Unquestionably, evil is that which they bear.
• 6:44 · Al-An'amبَغْتَةًۭ suddenlySo when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We opened to them the doors of every [good] thing until, when they rejoiced in that which they were given, We seized them suddenly, and they were [then] in despair.
• 6:47 · Al-An'amبَغْتَةً suddenlySay, "Have you considered: if the punishment of Allah should come to you unexpectedly or manifestly, will any be destroyed but the wrongdoing people?"
• 7:95 · Al-A'rafبَغْتَةًۭ suddenlyThen We exchanged in place of the bad [condition], good, until they increased [and prospered] and said, "Our fathers [also] were touched with hardship and ease." So We seized them suddenly while they did not perceive.
• 7:187 · Al-A'rafبَغْتَةًۭ ۗ suddenlyThey ask you, [O Muhammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival? Say, "Its knowledge is only with my Lord. None will reveal its time except Him. It lays heavily upon the heavens and the earth. It will not come upon you except unexpectedly." They ask you as if you are familiar with it. Say, "Its knowledge is only with Allah, but most of the people do not know."
• 12:107 · Yusufبَغْتَةًۭ suddenlyThen do they feel secure that there will not come to them an overwhelming [aspect] of the punishment of Allah or that the Hour will not come upon them suddenly while they do not perceive?
• 21:40 · Al-Anbyaبَغْتَةًۭ unexpectedlyRather, it will come to them unexpectedly and bewilder them, and they will not be able to repel it, nor will they be reprieved.
• 22:55 · Al-Hajjبَغْتَةً suddenlyBut those who disbelieve will not cease to be in doubt of it until the Hour comes upon them unexpectedly or there comes to them the punishment of a barren Day.
• 26:202 · Ash-Shu'araبَغْتَةًۭ suddenlyAnd it will come to them suddenly while they perceive [it] not.
• 29:53 · Al-'Ankabutبَغْتَةًۭ suddenlyAnd they urge you to hasten the punishment. And if not for [the decree of] a specified term, punishment would have reached them. But it will surely come to them suddenly while they perceive not.
• 39:55 · Az-Zumarبَغْتَةًۭ suddenlyAnd follow the best of what was revealed to you from your Lord before the punishment comes upon you suddenly while you do not perceive,
• 43:66 · Az-Zukhrufبَغْتَةًۭ suddenlyAre they waiting except for the Hour to come upon them suddenly while they perceive not?
• 47:18 · Muhammadبَغْتَةًۭ ۖ suddenlyThen do they await except that the Hour should come upon them unexpectedly? But already there have come [some of] its indications. Then what good to them, when it has come, will be their remembrance?

How we count

Each Qur’an word whose stem comes from this root counts once. Attached prefixes and pronouns, such as wa- (and) or al- (the), are not counted separately. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources. Verse translation: Saheeh International.