Kha-Ta-Mim
2 words from this root family
Kha-Ta-Mim (خ-ت-م) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: khatama (he sealed / he concluded), khātimah (conclusion / ending / seal).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 8 times in 8 verses, across 7 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:7. The form خَتَمَ (he sealed / he concluded) accounts for 5 of them.
Themes: Quranic
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
خَتَمَ khatama | he sealed / he concluded | verb, B1 | 5× | Covenants, Testing, and Forgiveness |
خَاتِمَةٌ khātimah | conclusion / ending / seal | noun, B2 | Advanced Quranic & Islamic Terminology |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
خَتَمَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَعَلَىٰ سَمْعِهِمْ ۖ وَعَلَىٰٓ أَبْصَـٰرِهِمْ غِشَـٰوَةٌ ۖ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌAllah hath sealed their hearing and their hearts, and on their eyes there is a covering. Theirs will be an awful doom.
مَّا كَانَ مُحَمَّدٌ أَبَآ أَحَدٍ مِّن رِّجَالِكُمْ وَلَـٰكِن رَّسُولَ ٱللَّهِ وَخَاتَمَ ٱلنَّبِيِّـۧنَ ۗ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَىْءٍ عَلِيمًاMuhammad is not the father of any man among you, but he is the messenger of Allah and the Seal of the Prophets; and Allah is ever Aware of all things.
يُسْقَوْنَ مِن رَّحِيقٍ مَّخْتُومٍThey are given to drink of a pure wine, sealed,
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).
Form I verb. Noun: خَاتَمٌ (seal/ring). خَاتِمُ النَّبِيِّينَ (Seal of the Prophets, 33:40). Present: يَخْتِمُ.
Muhammad ﷺ is called Khātam an-Nabiyyīn (Seal of the Prophets) - the final prophet, after whom no new prophet will come.
Feminine noun (fāʿilah pattern). From خَتَمَ (q237, to seal/conclude). خِتَامٌ is the seal/conclusion. Related: خَاتَمُ النَّبِيِّينَ (Seal of the Prophets, 33:40).
Muslims pray for ḥusn al-khātimah (a good ending) - the belief that how one's life concludes matters immensely for the afterlife.