Arabic root

ب-ط-ل

Ba-Tah-Lam

1 word from this root family

About this root

Ba-Tah-Lam (ب-ط-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: bāṭil (falsehood / vain / null).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 36 times in 34 verses, across 24 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:42. The form بَاطِلٌ (falsehood / vain / null) accounts for 26 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
بَاطِلٌ bāṭil	falsehood / vain / null	noun, A2	26×	Faith, Monotheism, and Hypocrisy

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

In the Quran

وَلَا تَلْبِسُوا۟ ٱلْحَقَّ بِٱلْبَـٰطِلِ وَتَكْتُمُوا۟ ٱلْحَقَّ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

Confound not truth with falsehood, nor knowingly conceal the truth.

Quran 2:42

فَوَقَعَ ٱلْحَقُّ وَبَطَلَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ

Thus was the Truth vindicated and that which they were doing was made vain.

Quran 7:118

أَوْ تَقُولُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَآ أَشْرَكَ ءَابَآؤُنَا مِن قَبْلُ وَكُنَّا ذُرِّيَّةً مِّنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ ۖ أَفَتُهْلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ ٱلْمُبْطِلُونَ

Or lest ye should say: (It is) only (that) our fathers ascribed partners to Allah of old and we were (their) seed after them. Wilt Thou destroy us on account of that which those who follow falsehood did?

Quran 7:173

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).