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خ-ل-ل

Kha-Lam-Lam

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Kha-Lam-Lam (خ-ل-ل) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: khalīl (intimate friend / close companion).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 13 times in 13 verses, across 11 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:254. The form خَلِيلٌ (intimate friend / close companion) accounts for 4 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
خَلِيلٌ
khalīl
intimate friend / close companionnoun, B14×Covenants, Testing, and Forgiveness

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

In the Quran

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓا۟ أَنفِقُوا۟ مِمَّا رَزَقْنَـٰكُم مِّن قَبْلِ أَن يَأْتِىَ يَوْمٌ لَّا بَيْعٌ فِيهِ وَلَا خُلَّةٌ وَلَا شَفَـٰعَةٌ ۗ وَٱلْكَـٰفِرُونَ هُمُ ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ

O ye who believe! Spend of that wherewith We have provided you ere a day come when there will be no trafficking, nor friendship, nor intercession. The disbelievers, they are the wrong-doers.

Quran 2:254
وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ دِينًا مِّمَّنْ أَسْلَمَ وَجْهَهُۥ لِلَّهِ وَهُوَ مُحْسِنٌ وَٱتَّبَعَ مِلَّةَ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ حَنِيفًا ۗ وَٱتَّخَذَ ٱللَّهُ إِبْرَٰهِيمَ خَلِيلًا

Who is better in religion than he who surrendereth his purpose to Allah while doing good (to men) and followeth the tradition of Abraham, the upright? Allah (Himself) chose Abraham for friend.

Quran 4:125
لَوْ خَرَجُوا۟ فِيكُم مَّا زَادُوكُمْ إِلَّا خَبَالًا وَلَأَوْضَعُوا۟ خِلَـٰلَكُمْ يَبْغُونَكُمُ ٱلْفِتْنَةَ وَفِيكُمْ سَمَّـٰعُونَ لَهُمْ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌۢ بِٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ

Had they gone forth among you they had added to you naught save trouble and had hurried to and fro among you, seeking to cause sedition among you; and among you there are some who would have listened to them. Allah is Aware of evil-doers.

Quran 9:47

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
خَلِيلٌ
khalīl

intimate friend / close companion

Example
وَاتَّخَذَ اللَّهُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ خَلِيلًا
wattakhadha Allāhu Ibrāhīma khalīlā
And Allah took Abraham as an intimate friend (4:125)
Grammar

Adjective/noun (faʿīl pattern). Feminine: خَلِيلَةٌ. Plural: أَخِلَّاءُ (akhillāʾ). From خُلَّةٌ (intimate friendship). The highest level of friendship.

Culture

Abraham is called Khalīl Allāh (Friend of God) - the only person given this title in the Quran, reflecting the highest human-divine relationship.

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