Quranic root
بعث
b · ʿ · th
The root centers on stirring, releasing, or bringing something into directed motion.
From excitation and removal of restraint, the lexicon develops into sending or commissioning, rousing and awakening, going forth, and divine raising of the dead.
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
بَعَثَ
baʿatha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 52 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To send, dispatch, or commission someone or something for a purpose or destination.
Used transitively of messengers, people, forces, witnesses, and other agents; the object may be sent alone or sent by means of another. It can also describe commissioning or bringing forth an agent for a task.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 62:2word 3
“sent”
To send an affliction or punishment upon someone, causing it to befall them.
A construction with an affliction, trial, or punishment as the object and people as the recipients.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:65word 6
“send”
To rouse, awaken, or bring someone into motion or activity.
Includes awakening from sleep and bringing someone out of a resting or inactive state; it does not by itself imply resurrection from death.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 6:60word 10
“He raises you up”
To revive the dead and raise them to life; to resurrect.
Used of divine raising from death, including the raising of people for the Resurrection.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:7word 9
“will resurrect”
اِنْبَعَثَ
āinbaʿatha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VII
- Form
- VII
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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To go forth, set out, or become propelled into motion.
An intransitive Form VII use describing one who rises and proceeds or goes forth, as though impelled or sent onward.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 91:12word 2
“(was) sent forth”
بَعْثٌ
baʿthun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 4 occurrences
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The raising of the dead to life; resurrection.
A verbal noun used in the eschatological sense of the Resurrection and the raising of people from death.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 22:5word 8
“the Resurrection”
Quran 31:28word 4
“your resurrection”
مَبْعُوثٌ
mabʿūthun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 9 occurrences
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Raised from death; resurrected.
The Quranic plural passive participle refers to people who will be raised for the Resurrection.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 17:49word 7
“surely (be) resurrected”
Quran 23:37word 10
“(will be) resurrected”
اِنْبِعَاثٌ
āinbiʿāthun
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Going forth, proceeding, or setting out.
A verbal noun describing movement or departure, especially the proceeding of people toward a destination or task.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 9:46word 10
“their being sent”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:56بَعَثْنَـٰكُمWe revived you
- 2:129وَٱبْعَثْ[And] raise up
- 2:213فَبَعَثَthen raised up
- 2:246ٱبْعَثْAppoint
- 2:247بَعَثَraised
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 14 Classical meanings
بَعْثٌ
The removal of what restrains someone or something from free action.
A primary lexical notion of release into action or movement.
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بَعْثٌ
Divine origination of beings, kinds, or species without prior existence.
A theological classification of divine bringing-into-being, distinct from the Quranic usage of resurrection represented above.
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تَبَاعَثُوا
To rouse, incite, urge, or put one another into action.
A reciprocal Form VI construction, including mutual encouragement to undertake an affair.
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اِنْبَعَثَ
To hasten or issue forth rapidly, as though propelled; of water, poetry, or other things, to pour or break forth.
A broader intransitive Form VII extension describing rapid movement, flowing, or sudden emergence.
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اِنْبَعَثَ
To become roused or awaken from sleep.
An intransitive Form VII use describing the subject's own becoming awake or active.
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بَعْثٌ
Sent; a person sent or a messenger.
The verbal noun may be used as a passive-participle noun, including for a person dispatched on a mission.
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بَعْثٌ
A group or expedition sent from one place to another; an army or force dispatched in a direction.
A collective substantive, including a military force sent to the frontiers or to war.
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بَعِثٌ
Sleepless or wakeful, especially one repeatedly awakened by anxiety or grief.
An adjective describing a person whose concerns keep awakening him from sleep.
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بَعْثَةٌ
An occasion of raising, stirring up, exciting, or provoking sedition or a similar disturbance.
A noun of occurrence referring to an episode or instance of such agitation.
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بَاعِثٌ
One who sends; a sender.
The active-participle noun of Form I, used for an agent of sending.
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بَاعِثٌ
An occasion, cause, or motive that brings about an action.
A figurative or causative use of the active participle, referring to what prompts or occasions something.
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الْبَاعِثُ
The Quickener of mankind after death.
A divine epithet referring to raising people to life on the day of resurrection.
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الْبَاعُوثُ
A Christian festival associated with Easter and with prayers for rain.
A loanword and technical religious-cultural term, not a productive Arabic derivative of the root.
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مَبْعَثٌ
A place or time of sending; especially the time or mission of Muhammad's prophetic mission.
A noun of place or time that is also specialized for the beginning of the prophetic mission.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Form I verb covers several Quran-attested branches; the object and construction distinguish dispatch, affliction, awakening, and resurrection.
The Quranic passive-participle group is presented under the singular citation form مَبْعُوثٌ, while its supplied Quran occurrences are plural.