Arabic root

ب-ي-ن

Ba-Ya-Nun

4 words from this root family

About this root

Ba-Ya-Nun (ب-ي-ن) has 4 words in the Fahm dictionary: bayyinah (clear evidence / clear proof), bayyana (he made clear / he explained / he clarified), bayna (between), bayānāt (data).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 523 times in 454 verses, across 71 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:66. The form بَيْنَ (between) accounts for 266 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Travel, Directions, Technology Media

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
بَيِّنَةٌ bayyinah	clear evidence / clear proof	noun, B1	71×	Advanced Quranic Vocabulary
بَيَّنَ bayyana	he made clear / he explained / he clarified	verb, B1	35×	Covenants, Testing, and Forgiveness
بَيْنَ bayna	between	particle, A2	266×	City Transportation
بَيَانَات bayānāt	data	noun, B1		Digital World

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

In the Quran

فَجَعَلْنَـٰهَا نَكَـٰلًا لِّمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهَا وَمَا خَلْفَهَا وَمَوْعِظَةً لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ

And We made it an example to their own and to succeeding generations, and an admonition to the Allah-fearing.

Quran 2:66

قَالُوا۟ ٱدْعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ يُبَيِّن لَّنَا مَا هِىَ ۚ قَالَ إِنَّهُۥ يَقُولُ إِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌ لَّا فَارِضٌ وَلَا بِكْرٌ عَوَانٌۢ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ ۖ فَٱفْعَلُوا۟ مَا تُؤْمَرُونَ

They said: Pray for us unto thy Lord that He make clear to us what (cow) she is. (Moses) answered: Lo! He saith, Verily she is a cow neither with calf nor immature; (she is) between the two conditions; so do that which ye are commanded.

Quran 2:68

۞ وَلَقَدْ جَآءَكُم مُّوسَىٰ بِٱلْبَيِّنَـٰتِ ثُمَّ ٱتَّخَذْتُمُ ٱلْعِجْلَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ وَأَنتُمْ ظَـٰلِمُونَ

And Moses came unto you with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), yet, while he was away, ye chose the calf (for worship) and ye were wrong-doers.

Quran 2:92

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

بَيِّنَةٌ

bayyinah

clear evidence / clear proof

Example

لَمْ يَكُنِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ مُنْفَكِّينَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَهُمُ الْبَيِّنَةُ

lam yakuni alladhīna kafarū min ahli al-kitābi munfakkīna ḥattā taʾtiyahumu al-bayyinah

Those who disbelieved from the People of the Book were not to be parted until the clear evidence came to them (98:1)

Root: ب-ي-ن Quranic

Grammar

Feminine adjective used as a noun (فَعِّلَة pattern). Related: بَيَّنَ (to make clear), بَيَانٌ (clarity/eloquence), مُبِينٌ (clear/manifest), تِبْيَانٌ (clarification). An entire surah is named Al-Bayyinah (98).

Culture

Al-Bayyinah (the Clear Evidence) refers to the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ or the Quran itself. Islam emphasizes that God provides clear evidence before holding people accountable.

B1verb

بَيَّنَ

bayyana

he made clear / he explained / he clarified

Example

كَذَلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ آيَاتِهِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ

kadhālika yubayyinu Allāhu lakum āyātihī laʿallakum taʿqilūn

Thus does Allah make clear to you His verses that you might use reason (2:242)

Root: ب-ي-ن Quranic

Grammar

Form II verb (فَعَّلَ, causative). Noun: بَيَانٌ (explanation/eloquence). Related: بَيِّنَةٌ (clear proof, q150). مُبِينٌ (clear/manifest).

Culture

The Quran describes itself as مُبِين (clear/manifest) - its message is meant to be understood, not obscured. Clarity is a divine attribute of the Quran.

A2particle

بَيْنَ

bayna