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42 times in the Quran · 2 word forms · rank 230
The Quran root ب ح ر b-ḥ-r
Words built from the root ب ح ر ([b-ḥ-r]) appear 42 times in the Quran. The most common is بَحْر, “sea”, which comes 41 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.
Words from this root
| Word | Say it | Meaning | Times | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| بَحْر | baḥr | sea · two seas | 41 | |
| بَحِيرَة | baḥiira | Bahirah | 1 |
Examples from the Quran
وَإِذْ فَرَقْنَا بِكُمُ الْبَحْرَ فَأَنجَيْنَاكُمْ وَأَغْرَقْنَا آلَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَأَنتُمْ تَنظُرُونَ ٥٠
الْبَحْرَ l-baḥra · the sea
And [recall] when We parted the sea for you and saved you and drowned the people of Pharaoh while you were looking on. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:50)
إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ وَاخْتِلَافِ اللَّيْلِ وَالنَّهَارِ وَالْفُلْكِ الَّتِي تَجْرِي فِي الْبَحْرِ بِمَا يَنفَعُ النَّاسَ وَمَا أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مِن مَّاءٍ فَأَحْيَا بِهِ الْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَا وَبَثَّ فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ دَابَّةٍ وَتَصْرِيفِ الرِّيَاحِ وَالسَّحَابِ الْمُسَخَّرِ بَيْنَ السَّمَاءِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ ١٦٤
الْبَحْرِ l-baḥri · the sea
Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the alternation of the night and the day, and the [great] ships which sail through the sea with that which benefits people, and what Allāh has sent down from the heavens of rain, giving life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness and dispersing therein every [kind of] moving creature, and [His] directing of the winds and the clouds controlled between the heaven and earth are signs for a people who use reason. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:164)
مَا جَعَلَ اللَّهُ مِن بَحِيرَةٍ وَلَا سَائِبَةٍ وَلَا وَصِيلَةٍ وَلَا حَامٍ وَلَٰكِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى اللَّهِ الْكَذِبَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ ١٠٣
بَحِيرَةٍ baḥīratin · a Bahirah
Allāh has not appointed [such innovations as] baḥīrah or sā’ibah or waṣīlah or ḥām. But those who disbelieve invent falsehood about Allāh, and most of them do not reason. (Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:103)
Surahs where it comes most
- Surah Al-Kahf · 6×
- Surah Al-An'am · 3×
- Surah Al-Isra · 3×
- Surah Luqman · 3×
- Surah Al-Baqarah · 2×
- Surah Al-Ma'idah · 2×
Each meaning is taken from the word-by-word translation of the verses, so a word can show two meanings from different contexts. Root and base-word data come from the Quranic Arabic Corpus.