ص ي ح Root ṣ-y-ḥ in the Qur’an 13 occurrences in 13 verses
- Occurrences
- 13
- Verses
- 13
- Surahs
- 9 of 114
- Words
- 1
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 ص ي ح (ṣ-y-ḥ) gives 1 word. It appears most in Ya-Sin (3), Hud (2), Al-Hijr (2).
Words from this root
Meanings are the most common word-by-word translations of each word in the Qur’an.
| Word | Type | Times | Translated as |
|---|---|---|---|
| صَيْحَة | noun | 13 | shout, awful cry, thunderous blast |
صَيْحَة 13 times
- 11:67 · Hudٱلصَّيْحَةُ the thunderous blastAnd the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses] fallen prone
- 11:94 · Hudٱلصَّيْحَةُ the thunderous blastAnd when Our command came, We saved Shu'ayb and those who believed with him, by mercy from Us. And the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses] fallen prone
- 15:73 · Al-Hijrٱلصَّيْحَةُ the awful crySo the shriek seized them at sunrise.
- 15:83 · Al-Hijrٱلصَّيْحَةُ the awful cryBut the shriek seized them at early morning.
- 23:41 · Al-Mu'minunٱلصَّيْحَةُ the awful crySo the shriek seized them in truth, and We made them as [plant] stubble. Then away with the wrongdoing people.
- 29:40 · Al-'Ankabutٱلصَّيْحَةُ the awful crySo each We seized for his sin; and among them were those upon whom We sent a storm of stones, and among them were those who were seized by the blast [from the sky], and among them were those whom We caused the earth to swallow, and among them were those whom We drowned. And Allah would not have wronged them, but it was they who were wronging themselves.
- 36:29 · Ya-Sinصَيْحَةًۭ a shoutIt was not but one shout, and immediately they were extinguished.
- 36:49 · Ya-Sinصَيْحَةًۭ a shoutThey do not await except one blast which will seize them while they are disputing.
- 36:53 · Ya-Sinصَيْحَةًۭ a shoutIt will not be but one blast, and at once they are all brought present before Us.
- 38:15 · Sadصَيْحَةًۭ a shoutAnd these [disbelievers] await not but one blast [of the Horn]; for it there will be no delay.
- 50:42 · Qafٱلصَّيْحَةَ the BlastThe Day they will hear the blast [of the Horn] in truth. That is the Day of Emergence [from the graves].
- 54:31 · Al-Qamarصَيْحَةًۭ thunderous blastIndeed, We sent upon them one blast from the sky, and they became like the dry twig fragments of an [animal] pen.
- 63:4 · Al-Munafiqunصَيْحَةٍ shoutAnd when you see them, their forms please you, and if they speak, you listen to their speech. [They are] as if they were pieces of wood propped up - they think that every shout is against them. They are the enemy, so beware of them. May Allah destroy them; how are they deluded?
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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