غ ر ق Root gh-r-q in the Qur’an 23 occurrences in 23 verses

Words from this root

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

أُغْرِقُ 17 times

• 2:50 · Al-Baqarahوَأَغْرَقْنَآ and We drownedAnd [recall] when We parted the sea for you and saved you and drowned the people of Pharaoh while you were looking on.
• 7:64 · Al-A'rafوَأَغْرَقْنَا And We drownedBut they denied him, so We saved him and those who were with him in the ship. And We drowned those who denied Our signs. Indeed, they were a blind people.
• 7:136 · Al-A'rafفَأَغْرَقْنَـٰهُمْ and We drowned themSo We took retribution from them, and We drowned them in the sea because they denied Our signs and were heedless of them.
• 8:54 · Al-Anfalوَأَغْرَقْنَآ and We drowned[Theirs is] like the custom of the people of Pharaoh and of those before them. They denied the signs of their Lord, so We destroyed them for their sins, and We drowned the people of Pharaoh. And all [of them] were wrongdoers.
• 10:73 · Yunusوَأَغْرَقْنَا and We drownedAnd they denied him, so We saved him and those with him in the ship and made them successors, and We drowned those who denied Our signs. Then see how was the end of those who were warned.
• 17:69 · Al-Israفَيُغْرِقَكُم and drown youOr do you feel secure that He will not send you back into the sea another time and send upon you a hurricane of wind and drown you for what you denied? Then you would not find for yourselves against Us an avenger.
• 17:103 · Al-Israفَأَغْرَقْنَـٰهُ but We drowned himSo he intended to drive them from the land, but We drowned him and those with him all together.
• 18:71 · Al-Kahfلِتُغْرِقَ to drownSo they set out, until when they had embarked on the ship, al-Khidh r tore it open. [Moses] said, "Have you torn it open to drown its people? You have certainly done a grave thing."
• 21:77 · Al-Anbyaفَأَغْرَقْنَـٰهُمْ so We drowned themAnd We saved him from the people who denied Our signs. Indeed, they were a people of evil, so We drowned them, all together.
• 25:37 · Al-Furqanأَغْرَقْنَـٰهُمْ We drowned themAnd the people of Noah - when they denied the messengers, We drowned them, and We made them for mankind a sign. And We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.
• 26:66 · Ash-Shu'araأَغْرَقْنَا We drownedThen We drowned the others.
• 26:120 · Ash-Shu'araأَغْرَقْنَا We drownedThen We drowned thereafter the remaining ones.
• 29:40 · Al-'Ankabutأَغْرَقْنَا ۚ We drownedSo each We seized for his sin; and among them were those upon whom We sent a storm of stones, and among them were those who were seized by the blast [from the sky], and among them were those whom We caused the earth to swallow, and among them were those whom We drowned. And Allah would not have wronged them, but it was they who were wronging themselves.
• 36:43 · Ya-Sinنُغْرِقْهُمْ We could drown themAnd if We should will, We could drown them; then no one responding to a cry would there be for them, nor would they be saved
• 37:82 · As-Saffatأَغْرَقْنَا We drownedThen We drowned the disbelievers.
• 43:55 · Az-Zukhrufفَأَغْرَقْنَـٰهُمْ and We drowned themAnd when they angered Us, We took retribution from them and drowned them all.
• 71:25 · Nuhأُغْرِقُوا۟ they were drownedBecause of their sins they were drowned and put into the Fire, and they found not for themselves besides Allah [any] helpers.

مُغْرَق 4 times

• 11:37 · Hudمُّغْرَقُونَ the ones (to be) drownedAnd construct the ship under Our observation and Our inspiration and do not address Me concerning those who have wronged; indeed, they are [to be] drowned."
• 11:43 · Hudٱلْمُغْرَقِينَ the drowned[But] he said, "I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the water." [Noah] said, "There is no protector today from the decree of Allah, except for whom He gives mercy." And the waves came between them, and he was among the drowned.
• 23:27 · Al-Mu'minunمُّغْرَقُونَ (are) the ones to be drownedSo We inspired to him, "Construct the ship under Our observation, and Our inspiration, and when Our command comes and the oven overflows, put into the ship from each [creature] two mates and your family, except those for whom the decree [of destruction] has proceeded. And do not address Me concerning those who have wronged; indeed, they are to be drowned.
• 44:24 · Ad-Dukhanمُّغْرَقُونَ (to be) drownedAnd leave the sea in stillness. Indeed, they are an army to be drowned."

غَرَق 1 time

• 10:90 · Yunusٱلْغَرَقُ the drowningAnd We took the Children of Israel across the sea, and Pharaoh and his soldiers pursued them in tyranny and enmity until, when drowning overtook him, he said, "I believe that there is no deity except that in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of the Muslims."

غَرْق 1 time

• 79:1 · An-Nazi'atغَرْقًۭا violentlyBy those [angels] who extract with violence

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.