غ ر ب Root gh-r-b in the Qur’an 19 occurrences in 17 verses

Words from this root

Meanings are the most common word-by-word translations of each word in the Qur’an.

مَغْرِب 10 times

• 2:115 · Al-Baqarahوَٱلْمَغْرِبُ ۚ and the westAnd to Allah belongs the east and the west. So wherever you [might] turn, there is the Face of Allah. Indeed, Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing.
• 2:142 · Al-Baqarahوَٱلْمَغْرِبُ ۚ and the westThe foolish among the people will say, "What has turned them away from their qiblah, which they used to face?" Say, "To Allah belongs the east and the west. He guides whom He wills to a straight path."
• 2:177 · Al-Baqarahوَٱلْمَغْرِبِ and the westRighteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah, the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous.
• 2:258 · Al-Baqarahٱلْمَغْرِبِ the westHave you not considered the one who argued with Abraham about his Lord [merely] because Allah had given him kingship? When Abraham said, "My Lord is the one who gives life and causes death," he said, "I give life and cause death." Abraham said, "Indeed, Allah brings up the sun from the east, so bring it up from the west." So the disbeliever was overwhelmed [by astonishment], and Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people.
• 7:137 · Al-A'rafوَمَغَـٰرِبَهَا and the western (parts) of itAnd We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and the western ones, which We had blessed. And the good word of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of what they had patiently endured. And We destroyed [all] that Pharaoh and his people were producing and what they had been building.
• 18:86 · Al-Kahfمَغْرِبَ (the) setting placeUntil, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it [as if] setting in a spring of dark mud, and he found near it a people. Allah said, "O Dhul-Qarnayn, either you punish [them] or else adopt among them [a way of] goodness."
• 26:28 · Ash-Shu'araوَٱلْمَغْرِبِ and the west[Moses] said, "Lord of the east and the west and that between them, if you were to reason."
• 55:17 · Ar-Rahmanٱلْمَغْرِبَيْنِ (of) the two Wests[He is] Lord of the two sunrises and Lord of the two sunsets.
• 70:40 · Al-Ma'arijوَٱلْمَغَـٰرِبِ and the settingsSo I swear by the Lord of [all] risings and settings that indeed We are able
• 73:9 · Al-Muzzammilوَٱلْمَغْرِبِ and the west[He is] the Lord of the East and the West; there is no deity except Him, so take Him as Disposer of [your] affairs.

غَرَبَت 2 times

• 18:17 · Al-Kahfغَرَبَت it setAnd [had you been present], you would see the sun when it rose, inclining away from their cave on the right, and when it set, passing away from them on the left, while they were [laying] within an open space thereof. That was from the signs of Allah. He whom Allah guides is the [rightly] guided, but he whom He leaves astray - never will you find for him a protecting guide.
• 18:86 · Al-Kahfتَغْرُبُ settingUntil, when he reached the setting of the sun, he found it [as if] setting in a spring of dark mud, and he found near it a people. Allah said, "O Dhul-Qarnayn, either you punish [them] or else adopt among them [a way of] goodness."

غُراب 2 times

• 5:31 · Al-Ma'idahغُرَابًۭا a crowThen Allah sent a crow searching in the ground to show him how to hide the disgrace of his brother. He said, "O woe to me! Have I failed to be like this crow and hide the body of my brother?" And he became of the regretful.
• 5:31 · Al-Ma'idahٱلْغُرَابِ [the] crowThen Allah sent a crow searching in the ground to show him how to hide the disgrace of his brother. He said, "O woe to me! Have I failed to be like this crow and hide the body of my brother?" And he became of the regretful.

غُرُوب 2 times

• 20:130 · Ta-Haغُرُوبِهَا ۖ its settingSo be patient over what they say and exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting; and during periods of the night [exalt Him] and at the ends of the day, that you may be satisfied.
• 50:39 · Qafٱلْغُرُوبِ the settingSo be patient, [O Muhammad], over what they say and exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting,

غَرابِيب 1 time

• 35:27 · Fatirوَغَرَابِيبُ and intensely blackDo you not see that Allah sends down rain from the sky, and We produce thereby fruits of varying colors? And in the mountains are tracts, white and red of varying shades and [some] extremely black.

غَرْبِيّ 1 time

• 28:44 · Al-Qasasٱلْغَرْبِىِّ westernAnd you, [O Muhammad], were not on the western side [of the mount] when We revealed to Moses the command, and you were not among the witnesses [to that].

غَرْبِيَّة 1 time

• 24:35 · An-Nurغَرْبِيَّةٍۢ (of the) westAllah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a lamp, the lamp is within glass, the glass as if it were a pearly [white] star lit from [the oil of] a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil would almost glow even if untouched by fire. Light upon light. Allah guides to His light whom He wills. And Allah presents examples for the people, and Allah is Knowing of all things.

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.