15 times in the Quran · 3 word forms · rank 459

The Quran root ص م م ṣ-m-m

Words built from the root ص م م ([ṣ-m-m]) appear 15 times in the Quran. The most common is أَصَمّ, “Deaf”, which comes 12 times. Learn the root once and you can recognise every word made from it.

Words from this root

Word	Say it	Meaning	Times
أَصَمّ	aṣamm	Deaf · cause the deaf to hear	12
صَمُّ	ṣammu	they became deaf	2
أَصَمَّ	aṣamma	He made them deaf	1

Examples from the Quran

صُمٌّ بُكْمٌ عُمْيٌ فَهُمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ ١٨

صُمٌّ ṣummun · Deaf

Deaf, dumb and blind - so they will not return [to the right path]. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:18)

وَمَثَلُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا كَمَثَلِ الَّذِي يَنْعِقُ بِمَا لَا يَسْمَعُ إِلَّا دُعَاءً وَنِدَاءً صُمٌّ بُكْمٌ عُمْيٌ فَهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ ١٧١

صُمٌّ ṣummun · deaf

The example of those who disbelieve is like that of one who shouts at what hears nothing but calls and cries [i.e., cattle or sheep] - deaf, dumb and blind, so they do not understand. (Surah Al-Baqarah, 2:171)

وَحَسِبُوا أَلَّا تَكُونَ فِتْنَةٌ فَعَمُوا وَصَمُّوا ثُمَّ تَابَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ ثُمَّ عَمُوا وَصَمُّوا كَثِيرٌ مِّنْهُمْ وَاللَّهُ بَصِيرٌ بِمَا يَعْمَلُونَ ٧١

وَصَمُّوا waṣammū · and they became deaf

And they thought there would be no [resulting] punishment, so they became blind and deaf. Then Allāh turned to them in forgiveness; then [again] many of them became blind and deaf. And Allāh is Seeing of what they do. (Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:71)

أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ لَعَنَهُمُ اللَّهُ فَأَصَمَّهُمْ وَأَعْمَىٰ أَبْصَارَهُمْ ٢٣

فَأَصَمَّهُمْ fa-aṣammahum · so He made them deaf

Those [who do so] are the ones that Allāh has cursed, so He deafened them and blinded their vision. (Surah Muhammad, 47:23)

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.