Arabic root

ذ-ن-ب

Dhal-Nun-Ba

1 word from this root family

About this root

Dhal-Nun-Ba (ذ-ن-ب) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: dhanb (sin / fault / offense).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 39 times in 37 verses, across 26 of the 114 suras. The first is in 3:11. The form ذَنْبٌ (sin / fault / offense) accounts for 37 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
ذَنْبٌ dhanb	sin / fault / offense	noun, A2	37×	Faith, Monotheism, and Hypocrisy

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

In the Quran

كَدَأْبِ ءَالِ فِرْعَوْنَ وَٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۚ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا فَأَخَذَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِذُنُوبِهِمْ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ شَدِيدُ ٱلْعِقَابِ

Like Pharaoh's folk and those who were before them, they disbelieved Our revelations and so Allah seized them for their sins. And Allah is severe in punishment.

Quran 3:11

ٱلَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَآ إِنَّنَآ ءَامَنَّا فَٱغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا وَقِنَا عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ

Those who say: Our Lord! Lo! we believe. So forgive us our sins and guard us from the punishment of Fire;

Quran 3:16

فَإِنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ذَنُوبًا مِّثْلَ ذَنُوبِ أَصْحَـٰبِهِمْ فَلَا يَسْتَعْجِلُونِ

And lo! for those who (now) do wrong there is an evil day like unto the evil day (which came for) their likes (of old); so let them not ask Me to hasten on (that day).

Quran 51:59

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).