ش ه و Root sh-h-w in the Qur’an 13 occurrences in 13 verses

Words from this root

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

اشْتَهَتْ 8 times

• 16:57 · An-Nahlيَشْتَهُونَ they desireAnd they attribute to Allah daughters - exalted is He - and for them is what they desire.
• 21:102 · Al-Anbyaٱشْتَهَتْ desireThey will not hear its sound, while they are, in that which their souls desire, abiding eternally.
• 34:54 · Sabaيَشْتَهُونَ they desireAnd prevention will be placed between them and what they desire, as was done with their kind before. Indeed, they were in disquieting denial.
• 41:31 · Fussilatتَشْتَهِىٓ desireWe [angels] were your allies in worldly life and [are so] in the Hereafter. And you will have therein whatever your souls desire, and you will have therein whatever you request [or wish]
• 43:71 · Az-Zukhrufتَشْتَهِيهِ desiresCirculated among them will be plates and vessels of gold. And therein is whatever the souls desire and [what] delights the eyes, and you will abide therein eternally.
• 52:22 · At-Turيَشْتَهُونَ they desireAnd We will provide them with fruit and meat from whatever they desire.
• 56:21 · Al-Waqi'ahيَشْتَهُونَ they desireAnd the meat of fowl, from whatever they desire.
• 77:42 · Al-Mursalatيَشْتَهُونَ they desireAnd fruits from whatever they desire,

شَهَوَة 3 times

• 3:14 · Ali 'Imranٱلشَّهَوَٰتِ (of) the (things they) desire Beautified for people is the love of that which they desire - of women and sons, heaped-up sums of gold and silver, fine branded horses, and cattle and tilled land. That is the enjoyment of worldly life, but Allah has with Him the best return.
• 4:27 · An-Nisaٱلشَّهَوَٰتِ the passionsAllah wants to accept your repentance, but those who follow [their] passions want you to digress [into] a great deviation.
• 19:59 · Maryamٱلشَّهَوَٰتِ ۖ the lustsBut there came after them successors who neglected prayer and pursued desires; so they are going to meet evil -

شَهْوَة 2 times

• 7:81 · Al-A'rafشَهْوَةًۭ lustfullyIndeed, you approach men with desire, instead of women. Rather, you are a transgressing people."
• 27:55 · An-Namlشَهْوَةًۭ (with) lustDo you indeed approach men with desire instead of women? Rather, you are a people behaving ignorantly."

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.