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بثث

b-t-h-t-h

The root بثث (bthth) primarily means to scatter, disperse, or spread something widely. It can also refer to revealing or disclosing a secret, or expressing one's grief and sorrow.

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ب-ث-ث

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23

Surahs

21

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Root

ب-ث-ث

Root Meaning

The root بثث (bthth) primarily means to scatter, disperse, or spread something widely. It can also refer to revealing or disclosing a secret, or expressing one's grief and sorrow.

Derived forms

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (9)

Al-Baqarah 2:164

وَبَثَّMeaning here: The root بثث (bthth) primarily means to scatter, disperse, or spread something widely. It can also refer to revealing or disclosing a secret, or expressing one's grief and sorrow.

Lo! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the difference of night and day, and the ships which run upon the sea with that which is of use to men, and the water which Allah sendeth down from the sky, thereby reviving the earth after its death, and dispersing all kinds of beasts therein, and (in) the ordinance of the winds, and the clouds obedient between heaven and earth: are signs (of Allah's Sovereignty) for people who have sense

An-Nisa 4:1

وَبَثَّMeaning here: The root بثث (bthth) primarily means to scatter, disperse, or spread something widely. It can also refer to revealing or disclosing a secret, or expressing one's grief and sorrow.

O mankind! Be careful of your duty to your Lord Who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate and from them twain hath spread abroad a multitude of men and women. Be careful of your duty toward Allah in Whom ye claim (your rights) of one another, and toward the wombs (that bare you). Lo! Allah hath been a watcher over you

Yusuf 12:86

بَثِّىMeaning here: The root بثث (bthth) primarily means to scatter, disperse, or spread something widely. It can also refer to revealing or disclosing a secret, or expressing one's grief and sorrow.

He said: I expose my distress and anguish only unto Allah, and I know from Allah that which ye know not

Luqman 31:10

وَبَثَّMeaning here: The root بثث (bthth) primarily means to scatter, disperse, or spread something widely. It can also refer to revealing or disclosing a secret, or expressing one's grief and sorrow.

He hath created the heavens without supports that ye can see, and hath cast into the earth firm hills, so that it quake not with you; and He hath dispersed therein all kinds of beasts. And We send down water from the sky and We cause (plants) of every goodly kind to grow therein

Ash-Shura 42:29

بَثَّMeaning here: The root بثث (bthth) primarily means to scatter, disperse, or spread something widely. It can also refer to revealing or disclosing a secret, or expressing one's grief and sorrow.

And of His portents is the creation of the heaven and the earth, and of whatever beasts He hath dispersed therein. And He is Able to gather them when He will

Al-Jathiyah 45:4

يَبُثُّMeaning here: The root بثث (bthth) primarily means to scatter, disperse, or spread something widely. It can also refer to revealing or disclosing a secret, or expressing one's grief and sorrow.

And in your creation, and all the beasts that He scattereth in the earth, are portents for a folk whose faith is sure

Al-Waqi'ah 56:6

مُّنۢبَثًّاMeaning here: The root بثث (bthth) primarily means to scatter, disperse, or spread something widely. It can also refer to revealing or disclosing a secret, or expressing one's grief and sorrow.

So that they become a scattered dust

Al-Ghashiyah 88:16

مَبْثُوثَةٌ

And silken carpets spread

Al-Qari'ah 101:4

ٱلْمَبْثُوثِ

A day wherein mankind will be as thickly-scattered moths

🔎 Across the Quran (29)

Al-Baqarah 2:259

أَوۡ كَٱلَّذِي مَرَّ عَلَىٰ قَرۡيَةࣲ وَهِيَ خَاوِيَةٌ عَلَىٰ عُرُوشِهَا قَالَ أَنَّىٰ يُحۡيِۦ هَٰذِهِ ٱللَّهُ بَعۡدَ مَوۡتِهَاۖ فَأَمَاتَهُ ٱللَّهُ مِاْئَةَ عَامࣲ ثُمَّ بَعَثَهُۥۖ قَالَ كَمۡ قَالَ يَوۡمًا أَوۡ بَعۡضَ يَوۡمࣲۖ قَالَ بَل مِاْئَةَ عَامࣲ فَٱنظُرۡ إِلَىٰ طَعَامِكَ وَشَرَابِكَ لَمۡ يَتَسَنَّهۡۖ وَٱنظُرۡ إِلَىٰ حِمَارِكَ وَلِنَجۡعَلَكَ ءَايَةࣰ لِّلنَّاسِۖ وَٱنظُرۡ إِلَى ٱلۡعِظَامِ كَيۡفَ نُنشِزُهَا ثُمَّ نَكۡسُوهَا لَحۡمࣰ اۚ فَلَمَّا تَبَيَّنَ لَهُۥ قَالَ أَعۡلَمُ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيۡءࣲ قَدِيرࣱ‏

Or take the case of the one who passed by a township that had fallen down upon its roofs. He exclaimed, "How shall Allah bring back to life this township that has become dead?" At this Allah caused him to die and he lay dead for a hundred years. Then Allah brought him back to life and asked him, "How long have you lain here?" He answered. "I might have lain here for a day or a few hours." Allah said, "Nay, you have been lying here in this state for a hundred years: now, just have a look at your food and your drink; they have not become spoiled in the least. Then have a look at your ass, (and see that his very bones have become rotten) and We have done this in order to make you a Sign for the people. Look, how We raise up the skeleton and set the bones (of the ass) and cover them with flesh and (put breath of life into them)." And when the Reality became manifest to him, he said, "I know that Allah has power over everything

Al-Ma'idah 5:29

إِنِّيٓ أُرِيدُ أَن تَبُوٓأَ وَإِثۡمِكَ فَتَكُونَ مِنۡ أَصۡحَٰبِ ٱلنَّارِۚ وَذَٰلِكَ جَزَٰٓؤُاْ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

I would desire that you be laden with my sin and with your sin, and thus become among the inmates of the Fire. That indeed is the right recompense of the wrong-doers

Yunus 10:16

قُل لَّوۡ شَآءَ ٱللَّهُ مَا تَلَوۡتُهُۥ عَلَيۡكُمۡ وَلَآ أَدۡرَىٰكُم بِهِۦۖ فَقَدۡ فِيكُمۡ عُمُرࣰ ا مِّن قَبۡلِهِۦٓۚ أَفَلَا تَعۡقِلُونَ

Tell them: 'Had Allah so willed, I would not have recited the Qur'an to you, nor would Allah have informed you of it. I have spent a lifetime among you before this. Do you, then, not use your reason

Yunus 10:45

وَيَوۡمَ يَحۡشُرُهُمۡ كَأَن لَّمۡ إِلَّا سَاعَةࣰ مِّنَ ٱلنَّهَارِ يَتَعَارَفُونَ بَيۡنَهُمۡۚ قَدۡ خَسِرَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِلِقَآءِ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا كَانُواْ مُهۡتَدِينَ

(But today they are oblivious of everything except enjoyment of worldly life.) And on the Day when He will muster all men together, they will feel as though they had been in the world no more than an hour of the day to get acquainted with one another. (It will then become evident that) those who called the lie to meeting with Allah were utter losers and were not rightly-directed. underlies this sharp remark is the faint hope that perhaps such people would be shaken out of their slumber

Hud 11:69

وَلَقَدۡ جَآءَتۡ رُسُلُنَآ إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ بِٱلۡبُشۡرَىٰ قَالُواْ سَلَٰمࣰ اۖ قَالَ سَلَٰمࣱۖ فَمَا أَن جَآءَ بِعِجۡلٍ حَنِيذࣲ‏

Indeed Our messengers came to Abraham, bearing glad tidings. They greeted him with 'peace', and Abraham answered back to them 'peace', and hurriedly brought to them a roasted calf

Yusuf 12:20

وَشَرَوۡهُ بَخۡسࣲ دَرَٰهِمَ مَعۡدُودَةࣲ وَكَانُواْ فِيهِ مِنَ ٱلزَّٰهِدِينَ

Later they sold him for a paltry sum - just a few dirhams; they did not care to obtain a higher price

Yusuf 12:42

وَقَالَ لِلَّذِي ظَنَّ أَنَّهُۥ نَاجࣲ مِّنۡهُمَا ٱذۡكُرۡنِي عِندَ رَبِّكَ فَأَنسَىٰهُ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنُ ذِكۡرَ رَبِّهِۦ فِي ٱلسِّجۡنِ بِضۡعَ سِنِينَ

And Joseph said to the one of the two prisoners who he knew would be set free: "Mention me in your lord's presence." But Satan caused him to forget mentioning this to his lord (the ruler of Egypt) and so Joseph languished in prison for several years

Al-Isra 17:52

يَوۡمَ يَدۡعُوكُمۡ فَتَسۡتَجِيبُونَ بِحَمۡدِهِۦ وَتَظُنُّونَ إِن إِلَّا قَلِيلࣰ ا

on the Day when He will call you and you will rise praising Him in response to His call, and you will believe that you had lain in this state only for a while

Al-Isra 17:76

وَإِن كَادُواْ لَيَسۡتَفِزُّونَكَ مِنَ ٱلۡأَرۡضِ لِيُخۡرِجُوكَ مِنۡهَاۖ وَإِذࣰ ا لَّا خِلَٰفَكَ إِلَّا قَلِيلࣰ ا

They were bent upon uprooting you from this land and driving you away from it. But were they to succeed, they would not be able to remain after you more than a little while

Al-Kahf 18:12

ثُمَّ بَعَثۡنَٰهُمۡ لِنَعۡلَمَ أَيُّ ٱلۡحِزۡبَيۡنِ أَحۡصَىٰ لِمَا أَمَدࣰ ا

and then roused them so that We might see which of the two parties could best tell the length of their stay

Al-Kahf 18:19

وَكَذَٰلِكَ بَعَثۡنَٰهُمۡ لِيَتَسَآءَلُواْ بَيۡنَهُمۡۚ قَالَ قَآئِلࣱ مِّنۡهُمۡ كَمۡ قَالُواْ لَبِثۡنَا يَوۡمًا أَوۡ بَعۡضَ يَوۡمࣲۚ قَالُواْ رَبُّكُمۡ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا فَٱبۡعَثُوٓاْ أَحَدَكُم بِوَرِقِكُمۡ هَٰذِهِۦٓ إِلَى ٱلۡمَدِينَةِ فَلۡيَنظُرۡ أَيُّهَآ أَزۡكَىٰ طَعَامࣰ ا فَلۡيَأۡتِكُم بِرِزۡقࣲ مِّنۡهُ وَلۡيَتَلَطَّفۡ وَلَا يُشۡعِرَنَّ بِكُمۡ أَحَدًا

Likewise, We roused them in a miraculous way that they might question one another. One of them asked: "How long did you remain (in this state)?" The others said: "We remained so for a day or part of a day." Then they said: "Your Lord knows better how long we remained in this state. Now send one of you to the city with this coin of yours and let him see who has the best food, and let him buy some provisions from there. Let him be cautious and not inform anyone of our whereabouts

Al-Kahf 18:25

فِي كَهۡفِهِمۡ ثَلَٰثَ مِاْئَةࣲ سِنِينَ وَٱزۡدَادُواْ تِسۡعࣰ ا

They remained in the Cave for three hundred years; and others added nine more years

Al-Kahf 18:26

قُلِ ٱللَّهُ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا لَهُۥ غَيۡبُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۖ أَبۡصِرۡ بِهِۦ وَأَسۡمِعۡۚ مَا لَهُم مِّن دُونِهِۦ مِن وَلِيࣲّ وَلَا يُشۡرِكُ فِي حُكۡمِهِۦٓ أَحَدࣰ ا

Say: "Allah knows best how long they remained in it, for only He knows all that is hidden in the heavens and the earth. How well He sees; how well He hears! The creatures have no other guardian than Him; He allows none to share His authority

Ta-Ha 20:40

إِذۡ تَمۡشِيٓ أُخۡتُكَ فَتَقُولُ هَلۡ أَدُلُّكُمۡ عَلَىٰ مَن يَكۡفُلُهُۥۖ فَرَجَعۡنَٰكَ إِلَىٰٓ أُمِّكَ كَيۡ تَقَرَّ عَيۡنُهَا وَلَا تَحۡزَنَۚ وَقَتَلۡتَ نَفۡسࣰ ا فَنَجَّيۡنَٰكَ مِنَ ٱلۡغَمِّ وَفَتَنَّٰكَ فُتُونࣰ اۚ سِنِينَ فِيٓ أَهۡلِ مَدۡيَنَ ثُمَّ جِئۡتَ عَلَىٰ قَدَرࣲ يَٰمُوسَىٰ

Recall, when your sister went along, saying: 'Shall I direct you to one who will take charge of him?' Thus We brought you back to your mother so that her heart might be gladdened and she might not grieve. Moses, recall when you slew a person. We delivered you from distress and made you go through several trials. Then you stayed for several years among the people of Midian, and now you have come at the right moment as ordained

Ta-Ha 20:103

يَتَخَٰفَتُونَ بَيۡنَهُمۡ إِن إِلَّا عَشۡرࣰ ا

They shall whisper among themselves: "You stayed on the earth barely ten days

Ta-Ha 20:104

نَّحۡنُ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ إِذۡ يَقُولُ أَمۡثَلُهُمۡ طَرِيقَةً إِن إِلَّا يَوۡمࣰ ا

We know well what they will say to one another: We also know that even the most cautious in his estimate will say: "You lived in the world no more than a day

Al-Mu'minun 23:112

قَٰلَ كَمۡ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ عَدَدَ سِنِينَ

Then Allah will ask them: "For how many years did you stay on earth

Al-Mu'minun 23:113

قَالُواْ يَوۡمًا أَوۡ بَعۡضَ يَوۡمࣲ فَسۡـَٔلِ ٱلۡعَآدِّينَ

They will say: "We stayed for a day or part of a day. Ask of those who keep count of this

Al-Mu'minun 23:114

قَٰلَ إِن إِلَّا قَلِيلࣰ اۖ لَّوۡ أَنَّكُمۡ كُنتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ

He will say: "You stayed only for a while, if you only knew that

Ash-Shu'ara 26:18

قَالَ أَلَمۡ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَلِيدࣰ ا فِينَا مِنۡ عُمُرِكَ سِنِينَ

Pharaoh said: "Did we not bring you up among us when you were a child

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