ن خ ل Root n-kh-l in the Qur’an 20 occurrences in 20 verses

Words from this root

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

نَخْل 11 times

• 6:99 · Al-An'amٱلنَّخْلِ the date-palmAnd it is He who sends down rain from the sky, and We produce thereby the growth of all things. We produce from it greenery from which We produce grains arranged in layers. And from the palm trees - of its emerging fruit are clusters hanging low. And [We produce] gardens of grapevines and olives and pomegranates, similar yet varied. Look at [each of] its fruit when it yields and [at] its ripening. Indeed in that are signs for a people who believe.
• 6:141 · Al-An'amوَٱلنَّخْلَ and the date-palmAnd He it is who causes gardens to grow, [both] trellised and untrellised, and palm trees and crops of different [kinds of] food and olives and pomegranates, similar and dissimilar. Eat of [each of] its fruit when it yields and give its due [zakah] on the day of its harvest. And be not excessive. Indeed, He does not like those who commit excess.
• 18:32 · Al-Kahfبِنَخْلٍۢ with date-palmsAnd present to them an example of two men: We granted to one of them two gardens of grapevines, and We bordered them with palm trees and placed between them [fields of] crops.
• 20:71 · Ta-Haٱلنَّخْلِ (of) date-palms[Pharaoh] said, "You believed him before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic. So I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of palm trees, and you will surely know which of us is more severe in [giving] punishment and more enduring."
• 26:148 · Ash-Shu'araوَنَخْلٍۢ and date-palmsAnd fields of crops and palm trees with softened fruit?
• 50:10 · Qafوَٱلنَّخْلَ And the palms treesAnd lofty palm trees having fruit arranged in layers -
• 54:20 · Al-Qamarنَخْلٍۢ (of) date-palmsExtracting the people as if they were trunks of palm trees uprooted.
• 55:11 · Ar-Rahmanوَٱلنَّخْلُ and date-palmsTherein is fruit and palm trees having sheaths [of dates]
• 55:68 · Ar-Rahmanوَنَخْلٌۭ and date-palmsIn both of them are fruit and palm trees and pomegranates.
• 69:7 · Al-Haqqahنَخْلٍ (of) date-palmsWhich Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.
• 80:29 · Abasaوَنَخْلًۭا and date-palmsAnd olive and palm trees

نَخِيل 7 times

• 2:266 · Al-Baqarahنَّخِيلٍۢ date-palmsWould one of you like to have a garden of palm trees and grapevines underneath which rivers flow in which he has from every fruit? But he is afflicted with old age and has weak offspring, and it is hit by a whirlwind containing fire and is burned. Thus does Allah make clear to you [His] verses that you might give thought.
• 13:4 · Ar-Ra'dوَنَخِيلٌۭ and date-palmsAnd within the land are neighboring plots and gardens of grapevines and crops and palm trees, [growing] several from a root or otherwise, watered with one water; but We make some of them exceed others in [quality of] fruit. Indeed in that are signs for a people who reason.
• 16:11 · An-Nahlوَٱلنَّخِيلَ and the date-palmsHe causes to grow for you thereby the crops, olives, palm trees, grapevines, and from all the fruits. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who give thought.
• 16:67 · An-Nahlٱلنَّخِيلِ the date-palmAnd from the fruits of the palm trees and grapevines you take intoxicant and good provision. Indeed in that is a sign for a people who reason.
• 17:91 · Al-Israنَّخِيلٍۢ date-palmsOr [until] you have a garden of palm tress and grapes and make rivers gush forth within them in force [and abundance]
• 23:19 · Al-Mu'minunنَّخِيلٍۢ of date-palmsAnd We brought forth for you thereby gardens of palm trees and grapevines in which for you are abundant fruits and from which you eat.
• 36:34 · Ya-Sinنَّخِيلٍۢ date-palmsAnd We placed therein gardens of palm trees and grapevines and caused to burst forth therefrom some springs -

نَخْلَة 2 times

• 19:23 · Maryamٱلنَّخْلَةِ (of) the date-palmAnd the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."
• 19:25 · Maryamٱلنَّخْلَةِ (of) the date-palmAnd shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree; it will drop upon you ripe, fresh dates.

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.