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ك-ذ-ب

Kaf-Dhal-Ba

2 words from this root family

About this root

Kaf-Dhal-Ba (ك-ذ-ب) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: kadhaba (he lied / he denied the truth), kadhib (lie / falsehood).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 282 times in 257 verses, across 68 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:10. The form كَذِب (lie / falsehood) accounts for 33 of them.

Themes: Quranic, Abstract Concepts

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
كَذَبَ
kadhaba
he lied / he denied the truthverb, A211×Faith and Belief
كَذِب
kadhib
lie / falsehoodnoun, B133×Ideas & Opinions

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

In the Quran

فِى قُلُوبِهِم مَّرَضٌ فَزَادَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ مَرَضًا ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْذِبُونَ

In their hearts is a disease, and Allah increaseth their disease. A painful doom is theirs because they lie.

Quran 2:10
وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَآ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلنَّارِ ۖ هُمْ فِيهَا خَـٰلِدُونَ

But they who disbelieve, and deny Our revelations, such are rightful Peoples of the Fire. They will abide therein.

Quran 2:39
وَإِنَّ مِنْهُمْ لَفَرِيقًا يَلْوُۥنَ أَلْسِنَتَهُم بِٱلْكِتَـٰبِ لِتَحْسَبُوهُ مِنَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبِ وَيَقُولُونَ هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ وَمَا هُوَ مِنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ وَيَقُولُونَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ٱلْكَذِبَ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

And lo! there is a party of them who distort the Scripture with their tongues, that ye may think that what they say is from the Scripture, when it is not from the Scripture. And they say: It is from Allah, when it is not from Allah; and they speak a lie concerning Allah knowingly.

Quran 3:78

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

A2verb
كَذَبَ
kadhaba

he lied / he denied the truth

Example
وَيْلٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ لِلْمُكَذِّبِينَ
waylun yawmaʾidhin lil-mukadhdhibīn
Woe, that Day, to the deniers (77:15)
Grammar

Form I verb. Past: كَذَبَ, Present: يَكْذِبُ. Form II: كَذَّبَ (to call a liar, to deny). Related: كَذِبٌ (lie), كَاذِبٌ (liar), مُكَذِّبٌ (denier).

Culture

The refrain 'woe to the deniers' is repeated ten times in Surah Al-Mursalāt (77), creating a powerful rhetorical impact.

B1noun
كَذِب
kadhib

lie / falsehood

Example
الكَذِبُ صِفَةٌ سَيِّئَة.
al-kadhibu ṣifatun sayyiʾa.
Lying is a bad trait.

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