خ ل ل Root kh-l-l in the Qur’an 13 occurrences in 13 verses

Words from this root

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

خِلال 8 times

• 9:47 · At-Tawbahخِلَـٰلَكُمْ in your midstHad they gone forth with you, they would not have increased you except in confusion, and they would have been active among you, seeking [to cause] you fitnah. And among you are avid listeners to them. And Allah is Knowing of the wrongdoers.
• 14:31 · Ibrahimخِلَـٰلٌ any friendship[O Muhammad], tell My servants who have believed to establish prayer and spend from what We have provided them, secretly and publicly, before a Day comes in which there will be no exchange, nor any friendships.
• 17:5 · Al-Israخِلَـٰلَ the inner most partSo when the [time of] promise came for the first of them, We sent against you servants of Ours - those of great military might, and they probed [even] into the homes, and it was a promise fulfilled.
• 17:91 · Al-Israخِلَـٰلَهَا within themOr [until] you have a garden of palm tress and grapes and make rivers gush forth within them in force [and abundance]
• 18:33 · Al-Kahfخِلَـٰلَهُمَا within themEach of the two gardens produced its fruit and did not fall short thereof in anything. And We caused to gush forth within them a river.
• 24:43 · An-Nurخِلَـٰلِهِۦ their midstDo you not see that Allah drives clouds? Then He brings them together, then He makes them into a mass, and you see the rain emerge from within it. And He sends down from the sky, mountains [of clouds] within which is hail, and He strikes with it whom He wills and averts it from whom He wills. The flash of its lightening almost takes away the eyesight.
• 27:61 · An-Namlخِلَـٰلَهَآ (in) its midstIs He [not best] who made the earth a stable ground and placed within it rivers and made for it firmly set mountains and placed between the two seas a barrier? Is there a deity with Allah? [No], but most of them do not know.
• 30:48 · Ar-Rumخِلَـٰلِهِۦ ۖ their midstIt is Allah who sends the winds, and they stir the clouds and spread them in the sky however He wills, and He makes them fragments so you see the rain emerge from within them. And when He causes it to fall upon whom He wills of His servants, immediately they rejoice

خَلِيل 4 times

• 4:125 · An-Nisaخَلِيلًۭا (as) a friendAnd who is better in religion than one who submits himself to Allah while being a doer of good and follows the religion of Abraham, inclining toward truth? And Allah took Abraham as an intimate friend.
• 17:73 · Al-Israخَلِيلًۭا (as) a friendAnd indeed, they were about to tempt you away from that which We revealed to you in order to [make] you invent about Us something else; and then they would have taken you as a friend.
• 25:28 · Al-Furqanخَلِيلًۭا (as) a friendOh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one as a friend.
• 43:67 · Az-Zukhrufٱلْأَخِلَّآءُ FriendsClose friends, that Day, will be enemies to each other, except for the righteous

خُلَّة 1 time

• 2:254 · Al-Baqarahخُلَّةٌۭ friendshipO you who have believed, spend from that which We have provided for you before there comes a Day in which there is no exchange and no friendship and no intercession. And the disbelievers - they are the wrongdoers.

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.