ق ر ي Root q-r-y in the Qur’an 57 occurrences in 54 verses

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قَرْيَة 57 times

• 2:58 · Al-Baqarahٱلْقَرْيَةَ townAnd [recall] when We said, "Enter this city and eat from it wherever you will in [ease and] abundance, and enter the gate bowing humbly and say, 'Relieve us of our burdens.' We will [then] forgive your sins for you, and We will increase the doers of good [in goodness and reward]."
• 2:259 · Al-Baqarahقَرْيَةٍۢ a townshipOr [consider such an example] as the one who passed by a township which had fallen into ruin. He said, "How will Allah bring this to life after its death?" So Allah caused him to die for a hundred years; then He revived him. He said, "How long have you remained?" The man said, "I have remained a day or part of a day." He said, "Rather, you have remained one hundred years. Look at your food and your drink; it has not changed with time. And look at your donkey; and We will make you a sign for the people. And look at the bones [of this donkey] - how We raise them and then We cover them with flesh." And when it became clear to him, he said, "I know that Allah is over all things competent."
• 4:75 · An-Nisaٱلْقَرْيَةِ [the] townAnd what is [the matter] with you that you fight not in the cause of Allah and [for] the oppressed among men, women, and children who say, "Our Lord, take us out of this city of oppressive people and appoint for us from Yourself a protector and appoint for us from Yourself a helper?"
• 6:92 · Al-An'amٱلْقُرَىٰ (of) the citiesAnd this is a Book which We have sent down, blessed and confirming what was before it, that you may warn the Mother of Cities and those around it. Those who believe in the Hereafter believe in it, and they are maintaining their prayers.
• 6:123 · Al-An'amقَرْيَةٍ cityAnd thus We have placed within every city the greatest of its criminals to conspire therein. But they conspire not except against themselves, and they perceive [it] not.
• 6:131 · Al-An'amٱلْقُرَىٰ the citiesThat is because your Lord would not destroy the cities for wrongdoing while their people were unaware.
• 7:4 · Al-A'rafقَرْيَةٍ a cityAnd how many cities have We destroyed, and Our punishment came to them at night or while they were sleeping at noon.
• 7:82 · Al-A'rafقَرْيَتِكُمْ ۖ your townBut the answer of his people was only that they said, "Evict them from your city! Indeed, they are men who keep themselves pure."
• 7:88 · Al-A'rafقَرْيَتِنَآ our citySaid the eminent ones who were arrogant among his people, "We will surely evict you, O Shu'ayb, and those who have believed with you from our city, or you must return to our religion." He said, "Even if we were unwilling?"
• 7:94 · Al-A'rafقَرْيَةٍۢ a cityAnd We sent to no city a prophet [who was denied] except that We seized its people with poverty and hardship that they might humble themselves [to Allah].
• 7:96 · Al-A'rafٱلْقُرَىٰٓ (of) the citiesAnd if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah, We would have opened upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We seized them for what they were earning."
• 7:97 · Al-A'rafٱلْقُرَىٰٓ (of) the citiesThen, did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them at night while they were asleep?
• 7:98 · Al-A'rafٱلْقُرَىٰٓ (of) the citiesOr did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them in the morning while they were at play?
• 7:101 · Al-A'rafٱلْقُرَىٰ (were) the cities Those cities - We relate to you, [O Muhammad], some of their news. And certainly did their messengers come to them with clear proofs, but they were not to believe in that which they had denied before. Thus does Allah seal over the hearts of the disbelievers.
• 7:161 · Al-A'rafٱلْقَرْيَةَ cityAnd [mention, O Muhammad], when it was said to them, "Dwell in this city and eat from it wherever you will and say, 'Relieve us of our burdens,' and enter the gate bowing humbly; We will [then] forgive you your sins. We will increase the doers of good [in goodness and reward]."
• 7:163 · Al-A'rafٱلْقَرْيَةِ the townAnd ask them about the town that was by the sea - when they transgressed in [the matter of] the sabbath - when their fish came to them openly on their sabbath day, and the day they had no sabbath they did not come to them. Thus did We give them trial because they were defiantly disobedient.
• 10:98 · Yunusقَرْيَةٌ any townThen 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.
• 11:100 · Hudٱلْقُرَىٰ (of) the citiesThat is from the news of the cities, which We relate to you; of them, some are [still] standing and some are [as] a harvest [mowed down].
• 11:102 · Hudٱلْقُرَىٰ the citiesAnd thus is the seizure of your Lord when He seizes the cities while they are committing wrong. Indeed, His seizure is painful and severe.
• 11:117 · Hudٱلْقُرَىٰ the citiesAnd your Lord would not have destroyed the cities unjustly while their people were reformers.
• 12:82 · Yusufٱلْقَرْيَةَ the townAnd ask the city in which we were and the caravan in which we came - and indeed, we are truthful,"
• 12:109 · Yusufٱلْقُرَىٰٓ ۗ (of) the townshipsAnd We sent not before you [as messengers] except men to whom We revealed from among the people of cities. So have they not traveled through the earth and observed how was the end of those before them? And the home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear Allah; then will you not reason?
• 15:4 · Al-Hijrقَرْيَةٍ townAnd We did not destroy any city but that for it was a known decree.
• 16:112 · An-Nahlقَرْيَةًۭ (of) a townAnd Allah presents an example: a city which was safe and secure, its provision coming to it in abundance from every location, but it denied the favors of Allah. So Allah made it taste the envelopment of hunger and fear for what they had been doing.
• 17:16 · Al-Israقَرْيَةً a townAnd when We intend to destroy a city, We command its affluent but they defiantly disobey therein; so the word comes into effect upon it, and We destroy it with [complete] destruction.
• 17:58 · Al-Israقَرْيَةٍ townAnd there is no city but that We will destroy it before the Day of Resurrection or punish it with a severe punishment. That has ever been in the Register inscribed.
• 18:59 · Al-Kahfٱلْقُرَىٰٓ [the] townsAnd those cities - We destroyed them when they wronged, and We made for their destruction an appointed time.
• 18:77 · Al-Kahfقَرْيَةٍ (of) a townSo they set out, until when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so al-Khidh r restored it. [Moses] said, "If you wished, you could have taken for it a payment."
• 21:6 · Al-Anbyaقَرْيَةٍ townNot a [single] city which We destroyed believed before them, so will they believe?
• 21:11 · Al-Anbyaقَرْيَةٍۢ a townAnd how many a city which was unjust have We shattered and produced after it another people.

Also in 27 more places: 21:74, 21:95, 22:45, 22:48, 25:40, 25:51, 26:208, 27:34, 27:56, 28:58, 28:59, 28:59, 29:31, 29:34, 34:18, 34:18, 34:34, 36:13, 42:7, 43:23, 43:31, 46:27, 47:13, 47:13, 59:7, 59:14, 65:8

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.