ب ع د (b-ʿ-d): Every Word From This Root in the Quran

Quran Root Words > Root b-ʿ-d

The Arabic root ب ع د (b-ʿ-d) occurs 235 times in the Quran, in 6 different words, and is number 40 of the Quran's 1,642 roots by frequency. The most frequent word is بَعْد (baʿd), 199 times, followed by بَعِيد (baʿīd), 25 times.

What the root b-ʿ-d means

The Quranic Arabic Corpus glosses the root's form I verb بَعُدَتْ (baʿudat) as "to become distant, to take away". Its other verbs are glossed there as follows: بَٰعِدْ (bāʿid), form III, "to lengthen". In the MASAQ word-by-word glosses, بَعْد (baʿd) is most often rendered "after".

All three letters of b-ʿ-d, ب ع د, are consonants with no weak letter among them, and every word the Quran builds on the root keeps all three in the same order. In بَعْد (baʿd) and بَعِيد (baʿīd) only the vowels and the added letters differ.

Every word from the root b-ʿ-d in the Quran

The Quran builds 6 different words on b-ʿ-d. The table lists them from most to least frequent, with the spelling the corpus gives each one, its word type, its meaning and its number of occurrences. Verbs account for 3 of the 235 occurrences, in forms I and III; the rest are nouns, adjectives and participles.

Meanings in quotation marks are MASAQ word-by-word glosses, the others the corpus dictionary's, and the word types follow the dictionary. The Arabic is the corpus's, in the Quran's own spelling, so بَٰعِدْ (bāʿid) keeps its small dagger alif. Every count on this page is a lemma count from the Quranic Arabic Corpus, version 0.4. We compared each of these 6 counts, and the root total of 235, with the corpus's own dictionary entry for b-ʿ-d, and all of them match.

The root b-ʿ-d in the verses of the Quran

Words from b-ʿ-d appear in 223 verses spread over 57 of the Quran's 114 suras. Sura 2 has the most of them, 25 verses. Below are the shortest verses in which the root's most frequent words occur, with the word marked. The text is the Uthmani text of Tanzil, and each reference opens the verse on quran.com with translations.

بَعْد (baʿd), 199 times

عُتُلٍّۭ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ
Quran 68:13; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "after"

وَٱلْأَرْضَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ دَحَىٰهَآ
Quran 79:30; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "after"

فَمَا يُكَذِّبُكَ بَعْدُ بِٱلدِّينِ
Quran 95:7; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "after (this)"

بَعِيد (baʿīd), 25 times

إِنَّهُمْ يَرَوْنَهُۥ بَعِيدًا
Quran 70:6; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "(as) far off"

وَأُزْلِفَتِ ٱلْجَنَّةُ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ غَيْرَ بَعِيدٍ
Quran 50:31; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "far"

بُعْد (buʿd), 7 times

كَأَن لَّمْ يَغْنَوْا۟ فِيهَآ ۗ أَلَا بُعْدًا لِّمَدْيَنَ كَمَا بَعِدَتْ ثَمُودُ
Quran 11:95; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "away"

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ بِٱلْحَقِّ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ غُثَآءً ۚ فَبُعْدًا لِّلْقَوْمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ
Quran 23:41; word-by-word gloss of the marked word: "so away"

Learning the words of b-ʿ-d

بَعْد (baʿd), no. 54 with 199, is on our list of the 100 most common Quran words, which counts it the same way. Its verbs follow the patterns of the Arabic verb forms (forms I and III), and our Arabic verb conjugator conjugates any root in any form, so you can see how بَعُدَتْ changes for person and tense. The root b-ʿ-d is one of the 1,642 roots you can search in our Quran root word explorer; for the rest of the language, see our Arabic learning resources by level.

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