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نفخ

n-f-k-h

The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

Root

ن-ف-خ

20

Total uses

18

Verses

17

Surahs

9

Forms

Root

ن-ف-خ

Root Meaning

The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

Derived forms

وَنُفِخَ5يُنفَخُ4نُفِخَ3وَنَفَخۡتُ2فَنَفَخۡنَا2فَأَنفُخُ1فَتَنفُخُ1ٱنفُخُواْۖ1نَفۡخَةࣱ1

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (10)

Aal-Imran 3:49

فَأَنفُخُMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

And will make him a messenger unto the Children of Israel, (saying): Lo! I come unto you with a sign from your Lord. Lo! I fashion for you out of clay the likeness of a bird, and I breathe into it and it is a bird, by Allah's leave. I heal him who was born blind, and the leper, and I raise the dead, by Allah's leave. And I announce unto you what ye eat and what ye store up in your houses. Lo! herein verily is a portent for you, if ye are to be believers

Al-Ma'idah 5:110

فَتَنفُخُMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

When Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Remember My favour unto thee and unto thy mother; how I strengthened thee with the holy Spirit, so that thou spakest unto mankind in the cradle as in maturity; and how I taught thee the Scripture and Wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and how thou didst shape of clay as it were the likeness of a bird by My permission, and didst blow upon it and it was a bird by My permission, and thou didst heal him who was born blind and the leper by My permission; and how thou didst raise the dead by My permission; and how I restrained the Children of Israel from (harming) thee when thou camest unto them with clear proofs, and those of them who disbelieved exclaimed: This is naught else than mere magic

Al-Hijr 15:29

وَنَفَخْتُMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

So, when I have made him and have breathed into him of My Spirit, do ye fall down, prostrating yourselves unto him

Al-Kahf 18:99

وَنُفِخَMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

And on that day we shall let some of them surge against others, and the Trumpet will be blown. Then We shall gather them together in one gathering

Al-Anbiya 21:91

فَنَفَخْنَاMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

And she who was chaste, therefor We breathed into her (something) of Our Spirit and made her and her son a token for (all) peoples

An-Naml 27:87

يُنفَخُMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

And (remind them of) the Day when the Trumpet will be blown, and all who are in the heavens and the earth will start in fear, save him whom Allah willeth. And all come unto Him, humbled

As-Sajdah 32:9

وَنَفَخَMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

Then He fashioned him and breathed into him of His Spirit; and appointed for you hearing and sight and hearts. Small thanks give ye

Sad 38:72

وَنَفَخْتُMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

And when I have fashioned him and breathed into him of My Spirit, then fall down before him prostrate

Qaf 50:20

وَنُفِخَMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

And the trumpet is blown. This is the threatened Day

Al-Haqqah 69:13

نُفِخَMeaning here: The root نفخ (nfkh) primarily means to blow, like blowing with one's mouth or into a trumpet. It can also describe inflation, such as food causing bloating or a devil inflating one's nose with pride.

And when the trumpet shall sound one blast

🔎 Across the Quran (8)

Al-An'am 6:73

وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ بِٱلۡحَقِّۖ وَيَوۡمَ يَقُولُ كُن فَيَكُونُۚ قَوۡلُهُ ٱلۡحَقُّۚ وَلَهُ ٱلۡمُلۡكُ يَوۡمَ فِي ٱلصُّورِۚ عَٰلِمُ ٱلۡغَيۡبِ وَٱلشَّهَٰدَةِۚ وَهُوَ ٱلۡحَكِيمُ ٱلۡخَبِيرُ

And He it is Who has created the heavens and the earth in truth; and the very day He will say: "Be!" (resurrection) there will be. His word is the Truth and His will be the dominion on the day when the-Trumpet is blown. He knows all that lies beyond the reach of human perception as well as all that is visible to man; He is the All-Wise, the All-Aware

Al-Kahf 18:96

ءَاتُونِي زُبَرَ ٱلۡحَدِيدِۖ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا سَاوَىٰ بَيۡنَ ٱلصَّدَفَيۡنِ قَالَ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَعَلَهُۥ نَارࣰ ا قَالَ ءَاتُونِيٓ أُفۡرِغۡ عَلَيۡهِ قِطۡرࣰ ا

Bring me ingots of iron." Then after he had filled up the space between the two mountain-sides, he said: "(Light a fire) and ply bellows." When he had made it (red like) fire, he said: "Bring me molten copper which I may pour on it

Ta-Ha 20:102

يَوۡمَ فِي ٱلصُّورِۚ وَنَحۡشُرُ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ يَوۡمَئِذࣲ زُرۡقࣰ ا

the Day when the Trumpet shall be sounded and We shall muster the sinners, their eyes turned blue with terror

Al-Mu'minun 23:101

فَإِذَا فِي ٱلصُّورِ فَلَآ أَنسَابَ بَيۡنَهُمۡ يَوۡمَئِذࣲ وَلَا يَتَسَآءَلُونَ

And then no sooner the Trumpet is blown than there will remain no kinship among them that Day, nor will they ask one another

Ya-Sin 36:51

فِي ٱلصُّورِ فَإِذَا هُم مِّنَ ٱلۡأَجۡدَاثِ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِمۡ يَنسِلُونَ

Then the Trumpet shall be blown and lo! they will come out of their graves and be on the move towards their Lord

Az-Zumar 39:68

فِي ٱلصُّورِ فَصَعِقَ مَن فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَن فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ إِلَّا مَن شَآءَ ٱللَّهُۖ ثُمَّ نُفِخَ فِيهِ أُخۡرَىٰ فَإِذَا هُمۡ قِيَامࣱ يَنظُرُونَ

And the Trumpet shall be blown and all who are in the heavens and the earth shall fall down dead save those whom Allah wills. Then the Trumpet shall be blown again, and lo! all of them will be standing and looking on

At-Tahrim 66:12

وَمَرۡيَمَ ٱبۡنَتَ عِمۡرَٰنَ ٱلَّتِيٓ أَحۡصَنَتۡ فَرۡجَهَا فِيهِ مِن رُّوحِنَا وَصَدَّقَتۡ بِكَلِمَٰتِ رَبِّهَا وَكُتُبِهِۦ وَكَانَتۡ مِنَ ٱلۡقَٰنِتِينَ

Allah has also set forth the parable of Mary, the daughter of Imran, who guarded her chastity, and into whom We breathed of Our Spirit, and who testified to the words of her Lord and His Books. She was among the obedient

An-Naba 78:18

يَوۡمَ فِي ٱلصُّورِ فَتَأۡتُونَ أَفۡوَاجࣰ ا

the Day when the Trumpet shall be blown, and you will come forth in multitudes