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خ ل د Root kh-l-d in the Qur’an 87 occurrences in 86 verses

Occurrences
87
Verses
86
Surahs
40 of 114
Words
6

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 خ ل د (kh-l-d) gives 6 words. It appears most in Al-Baqarah (8), At-Tawbah (7), Ali 'Imran (6).

Words from this root

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

WordTypeTimesTranslated as
خالِدnoun74abide forever, abiding forever, abide
خُلْدnoun6Eternity, everlasting, [the] immortality
أَخْلَدَverb2adhered, make him immortal
مُخَلَّدnoun2immortal, made eternal
يَخْلُدْverb2he will abide forever, live forever
خُلُودnoun1Eternity

خالِد 74 times

  • 2:25 · Al-Baqarahخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverAnd give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, "This is what we were provided with before." And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally.
  • 2:39 · Al-Baqarahخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverAnd those who disbelieve and deny Our signs - those will be companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally."
  • 2:81 · Al-Baqarahخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverYes, whoever earns evil and his sin has encompassed him - those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally.
  • 2:82 · Al-Baqarahخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverBut they who believe and do righteous deeds - those are the companions of Paradise; they will abide therein eternally.
  • 2:162 · Al-Baqarahخَـٰلِدِينَ (Will) abide foreverAbiding eternally therein. The punishment will not be lightened for them, nor will they be reprieved.
  • 2:217 · Al-Baqarahخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverThey ask you about the sacred month - about fighting therein. Say, "Fighting therein is great [sin], but averting [people] from the way of Allah and disbelief in Him and [preventing access to] al-Masjid al-Haram and the expulsion of its people therefrom are greater [evil] in the sight of Allah. And fitnah is greater than killing." And they will continue to fight you until they turn you back from your religion if they are able. And whoever of you reverts from his religion [to disbelief] and dies while he is a disbeliever - for those, their deeds have become worthless in this world and the Hereafter, and those are the companions of the Fire, they will abide therein eternally.
  • 2:257 · Al-Baqarahخَـٰلِدُونَ will abide foreverAllah is the ally of those who believe. He brings them out from darknesses into the light. And those who disbelieve - their allies are Taghut. They take them out of the light into darknesses. Those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein.
  • 2:275 · Al-Baqarahخَـٰلِدُونَ will abide foreverThose who consume interest cannot stand [on the Day of Resurrection] except as one stands who is being beaten by Satan into insanity. That is because they say, "Trade is [just] like interest." But Allah has permitted trade and has forbidden interest. So whoever has received an admonition from his Lord and desists may have what is past, and his affair rests with Allah. But whoever returns to [dealing in interest or usury] - those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide eternally therein.
  • 3:15 · Ali 'Imranخَـٰلِدِينَ abiding foreverSay, "Shall I inform you of [something] better than that? For those who fear Allah will be gardens in the presence of their Lord beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally, and purified spouses and approval from Allah. And Allah is Seeing of [His] servants -
  • 3:88 · Ali 'Imranخَـٰلِدِينَ (They will) abide foreverAbiding eternally therein. The punishment will not be lightened for them, nor will they be reprieved.
  • 3:107 · Ali 'Imranخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverBut as for those whose faces will turn white, [they will be] within the mercy of Allah. They will abide therein eternally.
  • 3:116 · Ali 'Imranخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverIndeed, those who disbelieve - never will their wealth or their children avail them against Allah at all, and those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally.
  • 3:136 · Ali 'Imranخَـٰلِدِينَ abiding foreverThose - their reward is forgiveness from their Lord and gardens beneath which rivers flow [in Paradise], wherein they will abide eternally; and excellent is the reward of the [righteous] workers.
  • 3:198 · Ali 'Imranخَـٰلِدِينَ will abide foreverBut those who feared their Lord will have gardens beneath which rivers flow, abiding eternally therein, as accommodation from Allah. And that which is with Allah is best for the righteous.
  • 4:13 · An-Nisaخَـٰلِدِينَ (will) abide foreverThese are the limits [set by] Allah, and whoever obeys Allah and His Messenger will be admitted by Him to gardens [in Paradise] under which rivers flow, abiding eternally therein; and that is the great attainment.
  • 4:14 · An-Nisaخَـٰلِدًۭا (will) abide foreverAnd whoever disobeys Allah and His Messenger and transgresses His limits - He will put him into the Fire to abide eternally therein, and he will have a humiliating punishment.
  • 4:57 · An-Nisaخَـٰلِدِينَ will abideBut those who believe and do righteous deeds - We will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide forever. For them therein are purified spouses, and We will admit them to deepening shade.
  • 4:93 · An-Nisaخَـٰلِدًۭا abiding foreverBut whoever kills a believer intentionally - his recompense is Hell, wherein he will abide eternally, and Allah has become angry with him and has cursed him and has prepared for him a great punishment.
  • 4:122 · An-Nisaخَـٰلِدِينَ will abideBut the ones who believe and do righteous deeds - We will admit them to gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever. [It is] the promise of Allah, [which is] truth, and who is more truthful than Allah in statement.
  • 4:169 · An-Nisaخَـٰلِدِينَ abidingExcept the path of Hell; they will abide therein forever. And that, for Allah, is [always] easy.
  • 5:80 · Al-Ma'idahخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverYou see many of them becoming allies of those who disbelieved. How wretched is that which they have put forth for themselves in that Allah has become angry with them, and in the punishment they will abide eternally.
  • 5:85 · Al-Ma'idahخَـٰلِدِينَ will abide foreverSo Allah rewarded them for what they said with gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally. And that is the reward of doers of good.
  • 5:119 · Al-Ma'idahخَـٰلِدِينَ will abideAllah will say, "This is the Day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness." For them are gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever, Allah being pleased with them, and they with Him. That is the great attainment.
  • 6:128 · Al-An'amخَـٰلِدِينَ will abide foreverAnd [mention, O Muhammad], the Day when He will gather them together [and say], "O company of jinn, you have [misled] many of mankind." And their allies among mankind will say, "Our Lord, some of us made use of others, and we have [now] reached our term, which you appointed for us." He will say, "The Fire is your residence, wherein you will abide eternally, except for what Allah wills. Indeed, your Lord is Wise and Knowing."
  • 7:20 · Al-A'rafٱلْخَـٰلِدِينَ the immortalsBut Satan whispered to them to make apparent to them that which was concealed from them of their private parts. He said, "Your Lord did not forbid you this tree except that you become angels or become of the immortal."
  • 7:36 · Al-A'rafخَـٰلِدُونَ will abide foreverBut the ones who deny Our verses and are arrogant toward them - those are the companions of the Fire; they will abide therein eternally.
  • 7:42 · Al-A'rafخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverBut those who believed and did righteous deeds - We charge no soul except [within] its capacity. Those are the companions of Paradise; they will abide therein eternally.
  • 9:17 · At-Tawbahخَـٰلِدُونَ (will) abide foreverIt is not for the polytheists to maintain the mosques of Allah [while] witnessing against themselves with disbelief. [For] those, their deeds have become worthless, and in the Fire they will abide eternally.
  • 9:22 · At-Tawbahخَـٰلِدِينَ (They will) abide[They will be] abiding therein forever. Indeed, Allah has with Him a great reward.
  • 9:63 · At-Tawbahخَـٰلِدًۭا (will) abide foreverDo they not know that whoever opposes Allah and His Messenger - that for him is the fire of Hell, wherein he will abide eternally? That is the great disgrace.

Also in 44 more places: 9:68, 9:72, 9:89, 9:100, 10:26, 10:27, 11:23, 11:107, 11:108, 13:5, 14:23, 16:29, 18:108, 20:76, 20:101, 21:8, 21:34, 21:99, 21:102, 23:11, 23:103, 25:16, 25:76, 29:58, 31:9, 33:65, 39:72, 39:73, 40:76, 43:71, 43:74, 46:14, 47:15, 48:5, 57:12, 58:17, 58:22, 59:17, 64:9, 64:10, 65:11, 72:23, 98:6, 98:8

خُلْد 6 times

  • 10:52 · Yunusٱلْخُلْدِ the everlastingThen it will be said to those who had wronged, "Taste the punishment of eternity; are you being recompensed except for what you used to earn?"
  • 20:120 · Ta-Haٱلْخُلْدِ (of) the EternityThen Satan whispered to him; he said, "O Adam, shall I direct you to the tree of eternity and possession that will not deteriorate?"
  • 21:34 · Al-Anbyaٱلْخُلْدَ ۖ [the] immortalityAnd We did not grant to any man before you eternity [on earth]; so if you die - would they be eternal?
  • 25:15 · Al-Furqanٱلْخُلْدِ (of) EternitySay, "Is that better or the Garden of Eternity which is promised to the righteous? It will be for them a reward and destination.
  • 32:14 · As-Sajdahٱلْخُلْدِ (of) eternitySo taste [punishment] because you forgot the meeting of this, your Day; indeed, We have [accordingly] forgotten you. And taste the punishment of eternity for what you used to do."
  • 41:28 · Fussilatٱلْخُلْدِ ۖ (of) the eternityThat is the recompense of the enemies of Allah - the Fire. For them therein is the home of eternity as recompense for what they, of Our verses, were rejecting.

أَخْلَدَ 2 times

  • 7:176 · Al-A'rafأَخْلَدَ adheredAnd if We had willed, we could have elevated him thereby, but he adhered [instead] to the earth and followed his own desire. So his example is like that of the dog: if you chase him, he pants, or if you leave him, he [still] pants. That is the example of the people who denied Our signs. So relate the stories that perhaps they will give thought.
  • 104:3 · Al-Humazahأَخْلَدَهُۥ will make him immortalHe thinks that his wealth will make him immortal.

مُخَلَّد 2 times

  • 56:17 · Al-Waqi'ahمُّخَلَّدُونَ immortalThere will circulate among them young boys made eternal
  • 76:19 · Al-Insanمُّخَلَّدُونَ made eternalThere will circulate among them young boys made eternal. When you see them, you would think them [as beautiful as] scattered pearls.

يَخْلُدْ 2 times

  • 25:69 · Al-Furqanوَيَخْلُدْ and he will abide foreverMultiplied for him is the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein humiliated -
  • 26:129 · Ash-Shu'araتَخْلُدُونَ live foreverAnd take for yourselves palaces and fortresses that you might abide eternally?

خُلُود 1 time

  • 50:34 · Qafٱلْخُلُودِ (of) EternityEnter it in peace. This is the Day of Eternity."

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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