Arabic root

ظ-ه-ر

Zah-Heh-Ra

4 words from this root family

About this root

Zah-Heh-Ra (ظ-ه-ر) has 4 words in the Fahm dictionary: ẓuhr (noon / midday), ẓāhir (apparent / outward / manifest), ẓahr (back), ẓāhira (phenomenon).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 59 times in 57 verses, across 30 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:85. The form ظَهْر (back) accounts for 15 of them.

Themes: Time, Basics, Quranic, Health, Body, Academic Formal

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
ظُهْر ẓuhr	noon / midday	noun, A1		Telling Time
ظَاهِرٌ ẓāhir	apparent / outward / manifest	adjective, B1	8×	Knowledge, Reflection, and Recitation
ظَهْر ẓahr	back	noun, A2	15×	Parts of the Body
ظَاهِرَة ẓāhira	phenomenon	noun, B2	2×	Logic & Arguments

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

In the Quran

وَلَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ رَسُولٌ مِّنْ عِندِ ٱللَّهِ مُصَدِّقٌ لِّمَا مَعَهُمْ نَبَذَ فَرِيقٌ مِّنَ ٱلَّذِينَ أُوتُوا۟ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ كِتَـٰبَ ٱللَّهِ وَرَآءَ ظُهُورِهِمْ كَأَنَّهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ

And when there cometh unto them a messenger from Allah, confirming that which they possess, a party of those who have received the Scripture fling the Scripture of Allah behind their backs as if they knew not,

Quran 2:101

وَذَرُوا۟ ظَـٰهِرَ ٱلْإِثْمِ وَبَاطِنَهُۥٓ ۚ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَكْسِبُونَ ٱلْإِثْمَ سَيُجْزَوْنَ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَقْتَرِفُونَ

Forsake the outwardness of sin and the inwardness thereof. Lo! those who garner sin will be awarded that which they have earned.

Quran 6:120

أَلَمْ تَرَوْا۟ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَخَّرَ لَكُم مَّا فِى ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَمَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ وَأَسْبَغَ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعَمَهُۥ ظَـٰهِرَةً وَبَاطِنَةً ۗ وَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ مَن يُجَـٰدِلُ فِى ٱللَّهِ بِغَيْرِ عِلْمٍ وَلَا هُدًى وَلَا كِتَـٰبٍ مُّنِيرٍ

See ye not how Allah hath made serviceable unto you whatsoever is in the skies and whatsoever is in the earth and hath loaded you with His favours both without and within? Yet of mankind is he who disputeth concerning Allah, without knowledge or guidance or a scripture giving light.

Quran 31:20

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).