10 times in the Quran · 3 word forms · rank 589

The Quran root ب ط ش b-ṭ-sh

Words built from the root ب ط ش ([b-ṭ-sh]) appear 10 times in the Quran. The most common is بَطَشْ, “you seize”, which comes 5 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
بَطَشْ	baṭash	you seize · hold	5
بَطْش	baṭsh	power · Grip	3
بَطْشَة	baṭsha	seizure	2

Examples from the Quran

أَلَهُمْ أَرْجُلٌ يَمْشُونَ بِهَا أَمْ لَهُمْ أَيْدٍ يَبْطِشُونَ بِهَا أَمْ لَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا أَمْ لَهُمْ آذَانٌ يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا قُلِ ادْعُوا شُرَكَاءَكُمْ ثُمَّ كِيدُونِ فَلَا تُنظِرُونِ ١٩٥

يَبْطِشُونَ yabṭishūna · (to) hold

Do they have feet by which they walk? Or do they have hands by which they strike? Or do they have eyes by which they see? Or do they have ears by which they hear? Say, [O Muḥammad], "Call your 'partners' and then conspire against me and give me no respite. (Surah Al-A'raf, 7:195)

وَإِذَا بَطَشْتُم بَطَشْتُمْ جَبَّارِينَ ١٣٠

بَطَشْتُم baṭashtum · you seize

And when you strike, you strike as tyrants. (Surah Ash-Shu'ara, 26:130)

فَأَهْلَكْنَا أَشَدَّ مِنْهُم بَطْشًا وَمَضَىٰ مَثَلُ الْأَوَّلِينَ ٨

بَطْشًا baṭshan · (in) power

And We destroyed greater than them in [striking] power, and the example of the former peoples has preceded. (Surah Az-Zukhruf, 43:8)

يَوْمَ نَبْطِشُ الْبَطْشَةَ الْكُبْرَىٰ إِنَّا مُنتَقِمُونَ ١٦

الْبَطْشَةَ l-baṭshata · (with) the seizure

The Day We will strike with the greatest assault, indeed, We will take retribution. (Surah Ad-Dukhan, 44:16)

Surahs where it comes most

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.