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خمر

k-h-m-r

The root خمر (khmr) primarily means to veil, cover, or conceal something. It extends to concealing thoughts, testimony, or even the intellect by wine.

Root

خ-م-ر

7

Total uses

7

Verses

5

Surahs

3

Forms

Root

خ-م-ر

Root Meaning

The root خمر (khmr) primarily means to veil, cover, or conceal something. It extends to concealing thoughts, testimony, or even the intellect by wine.

Derived forms

ٱلۡخَمۡرِ3خَمۡرࣰ3بِخُمُرِهِنَّ1

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📖 Ayaths where this word appears (7)

Al-Baqarah 2:219

ٱلْخَمْرِMeaning here: The root خمر (khmr) primarily means to veil, cover, or conceal something. It extends to concealing thoughts, testimony, or even the intellect by wine.

They question thee about strong drink and games of chance. Say: In both is great sin, and (some) utility for men; but the sin of them is greater than their usefulness. And they ask thee what they ought to spend. Say: that which is superfluous. Thus Allah maketh plain to you (His) revelations, that haply ye may reflect

Al-Ma'idah 5:90

ٱلْخَمْرُMeaning here: The root خمر (khmr) primarily means to veil, cover, or conceal something. It extends to concealing thoughts, testimony, or even the intellect by wine.

O ye who believe! Strong drink and games of chance and idols and divining arrows are only an infamy of Satan's handiwork. Leave it aside in order that ye may succeed

Al-Ma'idah 5:91

ٱلْخَمْرِMeaning here: The root خمر (khmr) primarily means to veil, cover, or conceal something. It extends to concealing thoughts, testimony, or even the intellect by wine.

Satan seeketh only to cast among you enmity and hatred by means of strong drink and games of chance, and to turn you from remembrance of Allah and from (His) worship. Will ye then have done

Yusuf 12:36

خَمْرًاMeaning here: The root خمر (khmr) primarily means to veil, cover, or conceal something. It extends to concealing thoughts, testimony, or even the intellect by wine.

And two young men went to prison with him. One of them said: I dreamed that I was pressing wine. The other said: I dreamed that I was carrying upon my head bread whereof the birds were eating. Announce unto us the interpretation, for we see thee of those good (at interpretation)

Yusuf 12:41

خَمْرًاMeaning here: The root خمر (khmr) primarily means to veil, cover, or conceal something. It extends to concealing thoughts, testimony, or even the intellect by wine.

O my two fellow-prisoners! As for one of you, he will pour out wine for his lord to drink; and as for the other, he will be crucified so that the birds will eat from his head. Thus is the case judged concerning which ye did inquire

An-Nur 24:31

بِخُمُرِهِنَّMeaning here: The root خمر (khmr) primarily means to veil, cover, or conceal something. It extends to concealing thoughts, testimony, or even the intellect by wine.

And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons, or their brothers or their brothers' sons or sisters' sons, or their women, or their slaves, or male attendants who lack vigour, or children who know naught of women's nakedness. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn unto Allah together, O believers, in order that ye may succeed

Muhammad 47:15

خَمْرٍMeaning here: The root خمر (khmr) primarily means to veil, cover, or conceal something. It extends to concealing thoughts, testimony, or even the intellect by wine.

A similitude of the Garden which those who keep their duty (to Allah) are promised: Therein are rivers of water unpolluted, and rivers of milk whereof the flavour changeth not, and rivers of wine delicious to the drinkers, and rivers of clear-run honey; therein for them is every kind of fruit, with pardon from their Lord. (Are those who enjoy all this) like those who are immortal in the Fire and are given boiling water to drink so that it teareth their bowels