Qur'an Gateway | Examine Root: قبل (qbl)

Examining Root: قبل (qbl)

Definition:
To accept/admit/receive/agree, meet anyone, to face/encounter someone/something, advance/approach, correspond, counteract/compare/requite/compensate, the front part (12:26), accept with approval, show favour.
qablu - before/formerly,
qubulun - the fore-part, face to face, before, plural of qabilum,
qibalun - power, side, part,
qiblah - towards, in the direction of, facing, alongside,
qiblatun - anything before, opposite, the point in the direction of which prayer is performed, the Ka'bah at Makkah, a place of worship,
qabulun - favourable reception, gracious acceptance,
qabilun - tribe, host, plural qabilatun,
qabailun - tribe,
aqbala - to come near, draw near, approach, turn towards, rush upon,
taqabbala - to accept,
mutaqabilun - opposite to, facing one another,
mustaqbilun - proceeding towards, heading towards.

Total Qur’anic Occurrences: 294

Lemmata Based on This Root: 13

Breakdown of Appearances

Verb: 28

Form
I:	9
II:	0
III:	0
IV:	9
V:	10
VI:	0
VII:	0
VIII:	0
VIX:	0
IX:	0
XI:	0
XII:	0

Gender
Masculine:	23
Feminine:	3
Unassigned:	2

Person
1st:	2
2nd:	5
3rd:	21

Number
Singular:	23
Dual:	0
Plural:	5

Noun: 219

Case
Nominative:	1
Accusative:	16
Genitive:	202

Gender
Masculine:	15
Feminine:	7

Number
Singular:	65
Dual:	0
Plural:	5

Formula
Appears in 1,336 Root-Based Formulae and lies behind 990 Lemma-Based Formulae
Root Formulae	Root-Plus-Particle-Pronoun Formulae	Lemma Formulae
Length 3: 157 Length 4: 150 Length 5: 111	Length 3: 365 Length 4: 374 Length 5: 179	Length 3: 439 Length 4: 316 Length 5: 235

Glosses for this Root

before (x115)
before you (x51)
(were) before them (x29)
before them (x23)
before [it] (x11)
will be accepted (x6)
facing each other (x4)
accepts (x3)
before it (x3)
before me? (x3)
before him (x3)
accept (x2)
before us (x2)
(as) places of worship (x2)
and before (x2)
is accepted (x2)
(is) resistance (x2)
And will approach (x2)
before (them)? (x2)
Then approached (x2)
was accepted (x1)
their direction of prayer (x1)
so accept (x1)

facing towards [it] (x1)
Draw near (x1)
(of) their direction of prayer (x1)
Then they advanced (x1)
and tribes (x1)
turning towards (x1)
and his tribe (x1)
before (us) (x1)
the direction of prayer (x1)
So accepted her (x1)
We will accept (x1)
and it was accepted (x1)
and accept (x1)
(of the) direction of prayer (x1)
and (the) Acceptor (x1)
Then came forward (x1)
we returned (x1)
before her (x1)
your direction of prayer (x1)
with acceptance (x1)
approaching (x1)
the front (x1)

Verse List

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