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خ ز ي Root kh-z-y in the Qur’an 26 occurrences in 24 verses

Occurrences
26
Verses
24
Surahs
15 of 114
Words
5

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 ز ي (kh-z-y) gives 5 words. It appears most in Hud (4), At-Tawbah (3), Al-Baqarah (2).

Words from this root

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

WordTypeTimesTranslated as
أَخْزَيْverb12disgrace me, disgrace him, You disgraced him
خِزْىnoun11disgrace
أَخْزَىnoun1more disgracing
مُخْزِيnoun1One Who disgrace
نَخْزَىverb1disgraced

أَخْزَيْ 12 times

  • 3:192 · Ali 'Imranأَخْزَيْتَهُۥ ۖ You (have) disgraced himOur Lord, indeed whoever You admit to the Fire - You have disgraced him, and for the wrongdoers there are no helpers.
  • 3:194 · Ali 'Imranتُخْزِنَا disgrace usOur Lord, and grant us what You promised us through Your messengers and do not disgrace us on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed, You do not fail in [Your] promise."
  • 9:14 · At-Tawbahوَيُخْزِهِمْ and disgrace themFight them; Allah will punish them by your hands and will disgrace them and give you victory over them and satisfy the breasts of a believing people
  • 11:39 · Hudيُخْزِيهِ (that) will disgrace himAnd you are going to know who will get a punishment that will disgrace him [on earth] and upon whom will descend an enduring punishment [in the Hereafter]."
  • 11:78 · Hudتُخْزُونِ disgrace meAnd his people came hastening to him, and before [this] they had been doing evil deeds. He said, "O my people, these are my daughters; they are purer for you. So fear Allah and do not disgrace me concerning my guests. Is there not among you a man of reason?"
  • 11:93 · Hudيُخْزِيهِ (that will) disgrace himAnd O my people, work according to your position; indeed, I am working. You are going to know to whom will come a punishment that will disgrace him and who is a liar. So watch; indeed, I am with you a watcher, [awaiting the outcome]."
  • 15:69 · Al-Hijrتُخْزُونِ disgrace meAnd fear Allah and do not disgrace me."
  • 16:27 · An-Nahlيُخْزِيهِمْ He will disgrace themThen on the Day of Resurrection He will disgrace them and say, "Where are My 'partners' for whom you used to oppose [the believers]?" Those who were given knowledge will say, "Indeed disgrace, this Day, and evil are upon the disbelievers" -
  • 26:87 · Ash-Shu'araتُخْزِنِى disgrace meAnd do not disgrace me on the Day they are [all] resurrected -
  • 39:40 · Az-Zumarيُخْزِيهِ disgracing himTo whom will come a torment disgracing him and on whom will descend an enduring punishment."
  • 59:5 · Al-Hashrوَلِيُخْزِىَ and that He may disgraceWhatever you have cut down of [their] palm trees or left standing on their trunks - it was by permission of Allah and so He would disgrace the defiantly disobedient.
  • 66:8 · At-Tahrimيُخْزِى will be disgracedO you who have believed, repent to Allah with sincere repentance. Perhaps your Lord will remove from you your misdeeds and admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow [on] the Day when Allah will not disgrace the Prophet and those who believed with him. Their light will proceed before them and on their right; they will say, "Our Lord, perfect for us our light and forgive us. Indeed, You are over all things competent."

خِزْى 11 times

  • 2:85 · Al-Baqarahخِزْىٌۭ disgraceThen, you are those [same ones who are] killing one another and evicting a party of your people from their homes, cooperating against them in sin and aggression. And if they come to you as captives, you ransom them, although their eviction was forbidden to you. So do you believe in part of the Scripture and disbelieve in part? Then what is the recompense for those who do that among you except disgrace in worldly life; and on the Day of Resurrection they will be sent back to the severest of punishment. And Allah is not unaware of what you do.
  • 2:114 · Al-Baqarahخِزْىٌۭ (is) disgraceAnd who are more unjust than those who prevent the name of Allah from being mentioned in His mosques and strive toward their destruction. It is not for them to enter them except in fear. For them in this world is disgrace, and they will have in the Hereafter a great punishment.
  • 5:33 · Al-Ma'idahخِزْىٌۭ disgraceIndeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and strive upon earth [to cause] corruption is none but that they be killed or crucified or that their hands and feet be cut off from opposite sides or that they be exiled from the land. That is for them a disgrace in this world; and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment,
  • 5:41 · Al-Ma'idahخِزْىٌۭ ۖ (is) disgraceO Messenger, let them not grieve you who hasten into disbelief of those who say, "We believe" with their mouths, but their hearts believe not, and from among the Jews. [They are] avid listeners to falsehood, listening to another people who have not come to you. They distort words beyond their [proper] usages, saying "If you are given this, take it; but if you are not given it, then beware." But he for whom Allah intends fitnah - never will you possess [power to do] for him a thing against Allah. Those are the ones for whom Allah does not intend to purify their hearts. For them in this world is disgrace, and for them in the Hereafter is a great punishment.
  • 9:63 · At-Tawbahٱلْخِزْىُ (is) the disgraceDo 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.
  • 10:98 · Yunusٱلْخِزْىِ (of) the disgraceThen has there not been a [single] city that believed so its faith benefited it except the people of Jonah? When they believed, We removed from them the punishment of disgrace in worldly life and gave them enjoyment for a time.
  • 11:66 · Hudخِزْىِ (the) disgraceSo when Our command came, We saved Salih and those who believed with him, by mercy from Us, and [saved them] from the disgrace of that day. Indeed, it is your Lord who is the Powerful, the Exalted in Might.
  • 16:27 · An-Nahlٱلْخِزْىَ the disgraceThen on the Day of Resurrection He will disgrace them and say, "Where are My 'partners' for whom you used to oppose [the believers]?" Those who were given knowledge will say, "Indeed disgrace, this Day, and evil are upon the disbelievers" -
  • 22:9 · Al-Hajjخِزْىٌۭ ۖ (is) disgraceTwisting his neck [in arrogance] to mislead [people] from the way of Allah. For him in the world is disgrace, and We will make him taste on the Day of Resurrection the punishment of the Burning Fire [while it is said],
  • 39:26 · Az-Zumarٱلْخِزْىَ the disgraceSo Allah made them taste disgrace in worldly life. But the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.
  • 41:16 · Fussilatٱلْخِزْىِ (of) disgraceSo We sent upon them a screaming wind during days of misfortune to make them taste the punishment of disgrace in the worldly life; but the punishment of the Hereafter is more disgracing, and they will not be helped.

أَخْزَى 1 time

  • 41:16 · Fussilatأَخْزَىٰ ۖ (is) more disgracingSo We sent upon them a screaming wind during days of misfortune to make them taste the punishment of disgrace in the worldly life; but the punishment of the Hereafter is more disgracing, and they will not be helped.

مُخْزِي 1 time

  • 9:2 · At-Tawbahمُخْزِى (is) the One Who (will) disgraceSo travel freely, [O disbelievers], throughout the land [during] four months but know that you cannot cause failure to Allah and that Allah will disgrace the disbelievers.

نَخْزَى 1 time

  • 20:134 · Ta-Haوَنَخْزَىٰ and disgracedAnd if We had destroyed them with a punishment before him, they would have said, "Our Lord, why did You not send to us a messenger so we could have followed Your verses before we were humiliated and disgraced?"

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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