Arabic root

د-ف-ع

Dal-Fa-Ayn

1 word from this root family

About this root

Dal-Fa-Ayn (د-ف-ع) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: dafaʿa (to pay / to push).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 10 times in 9 verses, across 8 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:251. The form دَفَعَ (to pay / to push) accounts for 5 of them.

Themes: Verbs, Shopping, Payment

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
دَفَعَ dafaʿa	to pay / to push	verb, A1	5×	Action Verbs - Work & Study

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

In the Quran

فَهَزَمُوهُم بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ وَقَتَلَ دَاوُۥدُ جَالُوتَ وَءَاتَىٰهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمُلْكَ وَٱلْحِكْمَةَ وَعَلَّمَهُۥ مِمَّا يَشَآءُ ۗ وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّفَسَدَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى ٱلْعَـٰلَمِينَ

So they routed them by Allah's leave and David slew Goliath; and Allah gave him the kingdom and wisdom, and taught him of that which He willeth. And if Allah had not repelled some men by others the earth would have been corrupted. But Allah is a Lord of Kindness to (His) creatures.

Quran 2:251

۞ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُدَٰفِعُ عَنِ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ كُلَّ خَوَّانٍ كَفُورٍ

Lo! Allah defendeth those who are true. Lo! Allah loveth not each treacherous ingrate.

Quran 22:38

ٱدْفَعْ بِٱلَّتِى هِىَ أَحْسَنُ ٱلسَّيِّئَةَ ۚ نَحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَصِفُونَ

Repel evil with that which is better. We are Best Aware of that which they allege.

Quran 23:96

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).