مَا عِندَكُمْ يَنفَدُ وَمَا عِندَ ٱللَّهِ بَاقٍ وَلَنَجْزِيَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ صَبَرُوٓا۟ أَجْرَهُم بِأَحْسَنِ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
نفد
complete exhaustion
Complete depletion of an available supply until it no longer remains.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 5
Roots: نفد
Lemmas: نفد · نفاد
Forms: يَنفَدُ · نَفِدَ · تَنفَدَ · نَفِدَتْ · نَّفَادٍ
Occurrence examples (5 of 5)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 5.
قُل لَّوْ كَانَ ٱلْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِّكَلِمَٰتِ رَبِّى لَنَفِدَ ٱلْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَن تَنفَدَ كَلِمَٰتُ رَبِّى وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِۦ مَدَدًا
قُل لَّوْ كَانَ ٱلْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِّكَلِمَٰتِ رَبِّى لَنَفِدَ ٱلْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَن تَنفَدَ كَلِمَٰتُ رَبِّى وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِۦ مَدَدًا
وَلَوْ أَنَّمَا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ مِن شَجَرَةٍ أَقْلَٰمٌ وَٱلْبَحْرُ يَمُدُّهُۥ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِۦ سَبْعَةُ أَبْحُرٍ مَّا نَفِدَتْ كَلِمَٰتُ ٱللَّهِ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ
إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَرِزْقُنَا مَا لَهُۥ مِن نَّفَادٍ
Why this meaning was chosen
What humans possess becomes exhausted while what is with God remains. The sea imagined as ink would be exhausted before God's words, and even multiplied seas would not exhaust those words. Garden provision is correspondingly described as having no exhaustion. Tense, gender agreement, polarity, and the abstract noun preserve one depletion endpoint.