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بهت

b-h-t

The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

Root

ب-ه-ت

8

Total uses

8

Verses

6

Surahs

5

Forms

Root

ب-ه-ت

Root Meaning

The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

Derived forms

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (8)

Al-Baqarah 2:258

فَبُهِتَMeaning here: The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

Bethink thee of him who had an argument with Abraham about his Lord, because Allah had given him the kingdom; how, when Abraham said: My Lord is He Who giveth life and causeth death, he answered: I give life and cause death. Abraham said: Lo! Allah causeth the sun to rise in the East, so do thou cause it to come up from the West. Thus was the disbeliever abashed. And Allah guideth not wrongdoing folk

An-Nisa 4:20

بُهْتَٰنًاMeaning here: The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

And if ye wish to exchange one wife for another and ye have given unto one of them a sum of money (however great), take nothing from it. Would ye take it by the way of calumny and open wrong

An-Nisa 4:112

بُهْتَٰنًاMeaning here: The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

And whoso committeth a delinquency or crime, then throweth (the blame) thereof upon the innocent, hath burdened himself with falsehood and a flagrant crime

An-Nisa 4:156

بُهْتَٰنًاMeaning here: The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

And because of their disbelief and of their speaking against Mary a tremendous calumny

Al-Anbiya 21:40

فَتَبْهَتُهُمْMeaning here: The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

Nay, but it will come upon them unawares so that it will stupefy them, and they will be unable to repel it, neither will they be reprieved

An-Nur 24:16

بُهْتَٰنٌMeaning here: The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

Wherefor, when ye heard it, said ye not: It is not for us to speak of this. Glory be to Thee (O Allah)! This is awful calumny

Al-Ahzab 33:58

بُهْتَٰنًاMeaning here: The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

And those who malign believing men and believing women undeservedly, they bear the guilt of slander and manifest sin

Al-Mumtahanah 60:12

بِبُهْتَٰنٍMeaning here: The root بَهَتَ (bht) primarily means to be confounded, perplexed, or amazed, often to the point of being silenced or overcome.

O Prophet! If believing women come unto thee, taking oath of allegiance unto thee that they will ascribe no thing as partner unto Allah, and will neither steal nor commit adultery nor kill their children, nor produce any lie that they have devised between their hands and feet, nor disobey thee in what is right, then accept their allegiance and ask Allah to forgive them. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful