12 times in the Quran · 2 word forms · rank 516

The Quran root ن ب ذ n-b-dh

Words built from the root ن ب ذ ([n-b-dh]) appear 12 times in the Quran. The most common is نَبَذَ, “threw it away”, which comes 10 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
نَبَذَ	nabadha	threw it away · threw away	10
انتَبَذَتْ	antabadhat	she withdrew	2

Examples from the Quran

أَوَكُلَّمَا عَاهَدُوا عَهْدًا نَّبَذَهُ فَرِيقٌ مِّنْهُم بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ ١٠٠

نَّبَذَهُ nabadhahu · threw it away

Is it not [true] that every time they took a covenant a party of them threw it away? But, [in fact], most of them do not believe. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:100)

وَلَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ رَسُولٌ مِّنْ عِندِ اللَّهِ مُصَدِّقٌ لِّمَا مَعَهُمْ نَبَذَ فَرِيقٌ مِّنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَرَاءَ ظُهُورِهِمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ١٠١

نَبَذَ nabadha · threw away

And when a messenger from Allāh came to them confirming that which was with them, a party of those who had been given the Scripture threw the Scripture of Allāh [i.e., the Torah] behind their backs as if they did not know [what it contained]. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:101)

وَاذْكُرْ فِي الْكِتَابِ مَرْيَمَ إِذِ انتَبَذَتْ مِنْ أَهْلِهَا مَكَانًا شَرْقِيًّا ١٦

انتَبَذَتْ intabadhat · she withdrew

And mention, [O Muḥammad], in the Book [the story of] Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place toward the east. (Surah Maryam, 19:16)

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.