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ح م م Root ḥ-m-m in the Qur’an 21 occurrences in 20 verses

Occurrences
21
Verses
20
Surahs
15 of 114
Words
2

Most Arabic words are built from a root of three letters, and words from one root share a core meaning. In the Qur’an, the root ح م م (ḥ-m-m) gives 2 words. It appears most in Al-Waqi'ah (4), Ghafir (2), Ad-Dukhan (2).

Words from this root

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

WordTypeTimesTranslated as
حَمِيمnoun20scalding water, boiling water, friend
يَحْمُومnoun1black smoke

حَمِيم 20 times

  • 6:70 · Al-An'amحَمِيمٍۢ boiling waterAnd leave those who take their religion as amusement and diversion and whom the worldly life has deluded. But remind with the Qur'an, lest a soul be given up to destruction for what it earned; it will have other than Allah no protector and no intercessor. And if it should offer every compensation, it would not be taken from it. Those are the ones who are given to destruction for what they have earned. For them will be a drink of scalding water and a painful punishment because they used to disbelieve.
  • 10:4 · Yunusحَمِيمٍۢ boiling fluidsTo Him is your return all together. [It is] the promise of Allah [which is] truth. Indeed, He begins the [process of] creation and then repeats it that He may reward those who have believed and done righteous deeds, in justice. But those who disbelieved will have a drink of scalding water and a painful punishment for what they used to deny.
  • 22:19 · Al-Hajjٱلْحَمِيمُ [the] scalding waterThese are two adversaries who have disputed over their Lord. But those who disbelieved will have cut out for them garments of fire. Poured upon their heads will be scalding water
  • 26:101 · Ash-Shu'araحَمِيمٍۢ closeAnd not a devoted friend.
  • 37:67 · As-Saffatحَمِيمٍۢ boiling waterThen indeed, they will have after it a mixture of scalding water.
  • 38:57 · Sadحَمِيمٌۭ boiling fluidThis - so let them taste it - is scalding water and [foul] purulence.
  • 40:18 · Ghafirحَمِيمٍۢ intimate friendAnd warn them, [O Muhammad], of the Approaching Day, when hearts are at the throats, filled [with distress]. For the wrongdoers there will be no devoted friend and no intercessor [who is] obeyed.
  • 40:72 · Ghafirٱلْحَمِيمِ the boiling waterIn boiling water; then in the Fire they will be filled [with flame].
  • 41:34 · Fussilatحَمِيمٌۭ intimateAnd not equal are the good deed and the bad. Repel [evil] by that [deed] which is better; and thereupon the one whom between you and him is enmity [will become] as though he was a devoted friend.
  • 44:46 · Ad-Dukhanٱلْحَمِيمِ (of) scalding waterLike the boiling of scalding water.
  • 44:48 · Ad-Dukhanٱلْحَمِيمِ (of) the scalding waterThen pour over his head from the torment of scalding water."
  • 47:15 · Muhammadحَمِيمًۭا boilingIs the description of Paradise, which the righteous are promised, wherein are rivers of water unaltered, rivers of milk the taste of which never changes, rivers of wine delicious to those who drink, and rivers of purified honey, in which they will have from all [kinds of] fruits and forgiveness from their Lord, like [that of] those who abide eternally in the Fire and are given to drink scalding water that will sever their intestines?
  • 55:44 · Ar-Rahmanحَمِيمٍ scalding waterThey will go around between it and scalding water, heated [to the utmost degree].
  • 56:42 · Al-Waqi'ahوَحَمِيمٍۢ and scalding water[They will be] in scorching fire and scalding water
  • 56:54 · Al-Waqi'ahٱلْحَمِيمِ the scalding waterAnd drinking on top of it from scalding water
  • 56:93 · Al-Waqi'ahحَمِيمٍۢ (the) scalding waterThen [for him is] accommodation of scalding water
  • 69:35 · Al-Haqqahحَمِيمٌۭ any devoted friendSo there is not for him here this Day any devoted friend
  • 70:10 · Al-Ma'arijحَمِيمٌ a friendAnd no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
  • 70:10 · Al-Ma'arijحَمِيمًۭا (about) a friendAnd no friend will ask [anything of] a friend,
  • 78:25 · An-Nabaحَمِيمًۭا scalding waterExcept scalding water and [foul] purulence -

يَحْمُوم 1 time

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.

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