Arabic root

ب-ع-ث

Ba-Ayn-Tha

3 words from this root family

About this root

Ba-Ayn-Tha (ب-ع-ث) has 3 words in the Fahm dictionary: baʿth (resurrection / raising up), baʿatha (he sent / he raised / he resurrected), inbiʿāthāt (emissions).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 67 times in 64 verses, across 33 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:56. The form بَعَثَ (he sent / he raised / he resurrected) accounts for 52 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Science Medicine

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
بَعْثٌ baʿth	resurrection / raising up	noun, B1	4×	Community and Society
بَعَثَ baʿatha	he sent / he raised / he resurrected	verb, A2	52×	Quranic Verbs of Action
اِنْبِعَاثَات inbiʿāthāt	emissions	noun, B2		Diseases & Epidemics

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَـٰكُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَوْتِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ

Then We revived you after your extinction, that ye might give thanks.

Quran 2:56

وَقَالُوٓا۟ إِنْ هِىَ إِلَّا حَيَاتُنَا ٱلدُّنْيَا وَمَا نَحْنُ بِمَبْعُوثِينَ

And they say: There is naught save our life of the world, and we shall not be raised (again).

Quran 6:29

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْعِلْمَ وَٱلْإِيمَـٰنَ لَقَدْ لَبِثْتُمْ فِى كِتَـٰبِ ٱللَّهِ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ ٱلْبَعْثِ ۖ فَهَـٰذَا يَوْمُ ٱلْبَعْثِ وَلَـٰكِنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُونَ

But those to whom knowledge and faith are given will say: The truth is, ye have tarried, by Allah's decree, until the Day of Resurrection. This is the Day of Resurrection, but ye used not to know.

Quran 30:56

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

B1noun

بَعْثٌ

baʿth

resurrection / raising up

Example

وَأَنَّ السَّاعَةَ آتِيَةٌ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهَا وَأَنَّ اللَّهَ يَبْعَثُ مَنْ فِي الْقُبُورِ

wa-anna as-sāʿata ātiyatun lā rayba fīhā wa-anna Allāha yabʿathu man fī al-qubūr

And the Hour is coming - no doubt about it - and Allah will resurrect those in the graves (22:7)

Root: ب-ع-ث Quranic

Grammar

Masculine verbal noun (maṣdar) of بَعَثَ (to send/raise). Related: مَبْعُوثٌ (sent/raised), بَاعِثٌ (one who raises). Also means 'sending' (of prophets): بَعَثَ رَسُولًا.

Culture

Belief in the bodily resurrection (al-baʿth) is a core Islamic doctrine. The Quran argues extensively for its possibility, pointing to God's power of original creation.

A2verb

بَعَثَ

baʿatha