Ha-Ba-Lam
1 word from this root family
Ha-Ba-Lam (ح-ب-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ḥabl (rope / cord / bond).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 7 times in 6 verses, across 5 of the 114 suras. The first is in 3:103. The form حَبْلٌ (rope / cord / bond) accounts for all of them.
Themes: Quranic
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
حَبْلٌ ḥabl | rope / cord / bond | noun, B1 | 7× | Knowledge, Reflection, and Recitation |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
قَالَ بَلْ أَلْقُوا۟ ۖ فَإِذَا حِبَالُهُمْ وَعِصِيُّهُمْ يُخَيَّلُ إِلَيْهِ مِن سِحْرِهِمْ أَنَّهَا تَسْعَىٰHe said: Nay, do ye throw! Then lo! their cords and their staves, by their magic, appeared to him as though they ran.
فَأَلْقَوْا۟ حِبَالَهُمْ وَعِصِيَّهُمْ وَقَالُوا۟ بِعِزَّةِ فِرْعَوْنَ إِنَّا لَنَحْنُ ٱلْغَـٰلِبُونَThen they threw down their cords and their staves and said: By Pharaoh's might, lo! we verily are the winners.
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِۦ نَفْسُهُۥ ۖ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ ٱلْوَرِيدِWe verily created man and We know what his soul whispereth to him, and We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.
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).
Masculine noun. Plural: حِبَالٌ (ḥibāl). Used metaphorically for God's covenant, the Quran, or the bond of faith. Also used literally (of Pharaoh's magicians' ropes).
حَبْلُ اللَّهِ (the rope of God) is one of the Quran's most vivid metaphors for holding onto faith and unity.