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ط م ع Root ṭ-m-ʿ in the Qur’an 12 occurrences in 12 verses

Occurrences
12
Verses
12
Surahs
10 of 114
Words
2

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 ط م ع (ṭ-m-ʿ) gives 2 words. It appears most in Al-A'raf (2), Ash-Shu'ara (2), Al-Baqarah (1).

Words from this root

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

WordTypeTimesTranslated as
يَطْمَعُverb8hope, Do you hope, we hope
طَمَعnoun4hope

يَطْمَعُ 8 times

  • 2:75 · Al-Baqarah۞ أَفَتَطْمَعُونَ Do you hopeDo you covet [the hope, O believers], that they would believe for you while a party of them used to hear the words of Allah and then distort the Torah after they had understood it while they were knowing?
  • 5:84 · Al-Ma'idahوَنَطْمَعُ And we hopeAnd why should we not believe in Allah and what has come to us of the truth? And we aspire that our Lord will admit us [to Paradise] with the righteous people."
  • 7:46 · Al-A'rafيَطْمَعُونَ hopeAnd between them will be a partition, and on [its] elevations are men who recognize all by their mark. And they call out to the companions of Paradise, "Peace be upon you." They have not [yet] entered it, but they long intensely.
  • 26:51 · Ash-Shu'araنَطْمَعُ hopeIndeed, we aspire that our Lord will forgive us our sins because we were the first of the believers."
  • 26:82 · Ash-Shu'araأَطْمَعُ I hopeAnd who I aspire that He will forgive me my sin on the Day of Recompense."
  • 33:32 · Al-Ahzabفَيَطْمَعَ lest should be moved with desireO wives of the Prophet, you are not like anyone among women. If you fear Allah, then do not be soft in speech [to men], lest he in whose heart is disease should covet, but speak with appropriate speech.
  • 70:38 · Al-Ma'arijأَيَطْمَعُ Does longDoes every person among them aspire to enter a garden of pleasure?
  • 74:15 · Al-Muddaththirيَطْمَعُ he desiresThen he desires that I should add more.

طَمَع 4 times

  • 7:56 · Al-A'rafوَطَمَعًا ۚ and hopeAnd cause not corruption upon the earth after its reformation. And invoke Him in fear and aspiration. Indeed, the mercy of Allah is near to the doers of good.
  • 13:12 · Ar-Ra'dوَطَمَعًۭا and a hopeIt is He who shows you lightening, [causing] fear and aspiration, and generates the heavy clouds.
  • 30:24 · Ar-Rumوَطَمَعًۭا and hopeAnd of His signs is [that] He shows you the lightning [causing] fear and aspiration, and He sends down rain from the sky by which He brings to life the earth after its lifelessness. Indeed in that are signs for a people who use reason.
  • 32:16 · As-Sajdahوَطَمَعًۭا and hopeThey arise from [their] beds; they supplicate their Lord in fear and aspiration, and from what We have provided them, they spend.

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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