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ز ع م Root z-ʿ-m in the Qur’an 17 occurrences in 16 verses

Occurrences
17
Verses
16
Surahs
10 of 114
Words
3

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 ز ع م (z-ʿ-m) gives 3 words. It appears most in Al-An'am (5), Al-Isra (2), Al-Kahf (2).

Words from this root

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

WordTypeTimesTranslated as
زَعَمَverb13claim, you claimed, you claim
زَعِيمnoun2responsible
زَعْمnoun2their claim

زَعَمَ 13 times

  • 4:60 · An-Nisaيَزْعُمُونَ claimHave you not seen those who claim to have believed in what was revealed to you, [O Muhammad], and what was revealed before you? They wish to refer legislation to Taghut, while they were commanded to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead them far astray.
  • 6:22 · Al-An'amتَزْعُمُونَ claimAnd [mention, O Muhammad], the Day We will gather them all together; then We will say to those who associated others with Allah, "Where are your 'partners' that you used to claim [with Him]?"
  • 6:94 · Al-An'amزَعَمْتُمْ you claimed[It will be said to them], "And you have certainly come to Us alone as We created you the first time, and you have left whatever We bestowed upon you behind you. And We do not see with you your 'intercessors' which you claimed that they were among you associates [of Allah]. It has [all] been severed between you, and lost from you is what you used to claim."
  • 6:94 · Al-An'amتَزْعُمُونَ claim[It will be said to them], "And you have certainly come to Us alone as We created you the first time, and you have left whatever We bestowed upon you behind you. And We do not see with you your 'intercessors' which you claimed that they were among you associates [of Allah]. It has [all] been severed between you, and lost from you is what you used to claim."
  • 17:56 · Al-Israزَعَمْتُم you claimedSay, "Invoke those you have claimed [as gods] besides Him, for they do not possess the [ability for] removal of adversity from you or [for its] transfer [to someone else]."
  • 17:92 · Al-Israزَعَمْتَ you have claimedOr you make the heaven fall upon us in fragments as you have claimed or you bring Allah and the angels before [us]
  • 18:48 · Al-Kahfزَعَمْتُمْ you claimedAnd they will be presented before your Lord in rows, [and He will say], "You have certainly come to Us just as We created you the first time. But you claimed that We would never make for you an appointment."
  • 18:52 · Al-Kahfزَعَمْتُمْ you claimedAnd [warn of] the Day when He will say, "Call 'My partners' whom you claimed," and they will invoke them, but they will not respond to them. And We will put between them [a valley of] destruction.
  • 28:62 · Al-Qasasتَزْعُمُونَ claimAnd [warn of] the Day He will call them and say, "Where are My 'partners' which you used to claim?"
  • 28:74 · Al-Qasasتَزْعُمُونَ claimAnd [warn of] the Day He will call them and say, "Where are my 'partners' which you used to claim?"
  • 34:22 · Sabaزَعَمْتُم you claimSay, [O Muhammad], "Invoke those you claim [as deities] besides Allah." They do not possess an atom's weight [of ability] in the heavens or on the earth, and they do not have therein any partnership [with Him], nor is there for Him from among them any assistant.
  • 62:6 · Al-Jumu'ahزَعَمْتُمْ you claimSay, "O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of Allah, excluding the [other] people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful."
  • 64:7 · At-Taghabunزَعَمَ ClaimThose who disbelieve have claimed that they will never be resurrected. Say, "Yes, by my Lord, you will surely be resurrected; then you will surely be informed of what you did. And that, for Allah, is easy."

زَعِيم 2 times

  • 12:72 · Yusufزَعِيمٌۭ (is) responsibleThey said, "We are missing the measure of the king. And for he who produces it is [the reward of] a camel's load, and I am responsible for it."
  • 68:40 · Al-Qalamزَعِيمٌ (is) responsibleAsk them which of them, for that [claim], is responsible.

زَعْم 2 times

  • 6:136 · Al-An'amبِزَعْمِهِمْ by their claimAnd the polytheists assign to Allah from that which He created of crops and livestock a share and say, "This is for Allah," by their claim, "and this is for our partners [associated with Him]." But what is for their "partners" does not reach Allah, while what is for Allah - this reaches their "partners." Evil is that which they rule.
  • 6:138 · Al-An'amبِزَعْمِهِمْ by their claimAnd they say, "These animals and crops are forbidden; no one may eat from them except whom we will," by their claim. And there are those [camels] whose backs are forbidden [by them] and those upon which the name of Allah is not mentioned - [all of this] an invention of untruth about Him. He will punish them for what they were inventing.

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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