س ف ل Root s-f-l in the Qur’an 10 occurrences in 9 verses

Words from this root

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

أَسْفَل 6 times

• 4:145 · An-Nisaٱلْأَسْفَلِ the lowestIndeed, the hypocrites will be in the lowest depths of the Fire - and never will you find for them a helper -
• 8:42 · Al-Anfalأَسْفَلَ (was) lower[Remember] when you were on the near side of the valley, and they were on the farther side, and the caravan was lower [in position] than you. If you had made an appointment [to meet], you would have missed the appointment. But [it was] so that Allah might accomplish a matter already destined - that those who perished [through disbelief] would perish upon evidence and those who lived [in faith] would live upon evidence; and indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.
• 33:10 · Al-Ahzabأَسْفَلَ below[Remember] when they came at you from above you and from below you, and when eyes shifted [in fear], and hearts reached the throats and you assumed about Allah [various] assumptions.
• 37:98 · As-Saffatٱلْأَسْفَلِينَ the lowestAnd they intended for him a plan, but We made them the most debased.
• 41:29 · Fussilatٱلْأَسْفَلِينَ the lowestAnd those who disbelieved will [then] say, "Our Lord, show us those who misled us of the jinn and men [so] we may put them under our feet that they will be among the lowest."
• 95:5 · At-Tinأَسْفَلَ (to the) lowestThen We return him to the lowest of the low,

سافِل 3 times

• 11:82 · Hudسَافِلَهَا its downsideSo when Our command came, We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of layered hard clay, [which were]
• 15:74 · Al-Hijrسَافِلَهَا its lowestAnd We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and rained upon them stones of hard clay.
• 95:5 · At-Tinسَـٰفِلِينَ (of the) lowThen We return him to the lowest of the low,

سُفْلَى 1 time

• 9:40 · At-Tawbahٱلسُّفْلَىٰ ۗ the lowestIf you do not aid the Prophet - Allah has already aided him when those who disbelieved had driven him out [of Makkah] as one of two, when they were in the cave and he said to his companion, "Do not grieve; indeed Allah is with us." And Allah sent down his tranquillity upon him and supported him with angels you did not see and made the word of those who disbelieved the lowest, while the word of Allah - that is the highest. And Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.

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.