Arabic root

ب-ر-ز-خ

Ba-Ra-Zay-Kha

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ba-Ra-Zay-Kha (ب-ر-ز-خ) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: barzakh (barrier / isthmus / intermediate realm).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 3 times in 3 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 23:100. The form بَرْزَخٌ (barrier / isthmus / intermediate realm) accounts for all of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
بَرْزَخٌ barzakh	barrier / isthmus / intermediate realm	noun, B2	3×	Life, Death, and the Hereafter

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

In the Quran

لَعَلِّىٓ أَعْمَلُ صَـٰلِحًا فِيمَا تَرَكْتُ ۚ كَلَّآ ۚ إِنَّهَا كَلِمَةٌ هُوَ قَآئِلُهَا ۖ وَمِن وَرَآئِهِم بَرْزَخٌ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ

That I may do right in that which I have left behind! But nay! It is but a word that he speaketh; and behind them is a barrier until the day when they are raised.

Quran 23:100

۞ وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى مَرَجَ ٱلْبَحْرَيْنِ هَـٰذَا عَذْبٌ فُرَاتٌ وَهَـٰذَا مِلْحٌ أُجَاجٌ وَجَعَلَ بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخًا وَحِجْرًا مَّحْجُورًا

And He it is Who hath given independence to the two seas (though they meet); one palatable, sweet, and the other saltish, bitter; and hath set a bar and a forbidding ban between them.

Quran 25:53

بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَّا يَبْغِيَانِ

There is a barrier between them. They encroach not (one upon the other).

Quran 55:20

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).