# Ayn-Sad-Be — عصب (ESb)

> Occurs in 5 verses of the Quran.

- **Source:** https://quran.so/root/ESb

- **Meaning:** To wind/twist/bind/lighten/surround, take a thing by force, become difficult, become dry in the mouth (saliva). Usbatun - band/troop/gang/party. Asib - very difficult, vehemently distressful, hard, woeful.
- **Derived forms:** عُصْبَة (4) · عَصِيب (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 11. Surah Hud, Verse 77

- **Form in this verse:** عَصِيبٌۭ — ʿaṣībun · "distressful"
  - **Grammar:** adjective · masculine, singular · nominative case · indefinite

وَلَمَّا جَٓاءَتْ رُسُلُنَا لُوطاً س۪ٓيءَ بِهِمْ وَضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعاً وَقَالَ هٰذَا يَوْمٌ عَص۪يبٌ

Walamma jaat rusulunalootan see-a bihim wadaqa bihim tharAAan waqalahatha yawmun AAaseeb

And when Our messengers came to Lot, he was distressed for them and straitened with unease for them; and he said: “This is a trying day.”

_https://quran.so/surah-hud/verse-77.md_

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 8

- **Form in this verse:** عُصْبَةٌ — ʿuṣ'batun · "(are) a group"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

اِذْ قَالُوا لَيُوسُفُ وَاَخُوهُ اَحَبُّ اِلٰٓى اَب۪ينَا مِنَّا وَنَحْنُ عُصْبَةٌۜ اِنَّ اَبَانَا لَف۪ي ضَلَالٍ مُب۪ينٍۚ

Ith qaloo layoosufu waakhoohu ahabbuila abeena minna wanahnu AAusbatuninna abana lafee dalalin mubeen

When they said: “Joseph and his brother are dearer to our father than are we, when we are a group; our father is in manifest error.

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-8.md_

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 14

- **Form in this verse:** عُصْبَةٌ — ʿuṣ'batun · "(are) a group"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

قَالُوا لَئِنْ اَكَلَهُ الذِّئْبُ وَنَحْنُ عُصْبَةٌ اِنَّٓا اِذاً لَخَاسِرُونَ

Qaloo la-in akalahu aththi/buwanahnu AAusbatun inna ithan lakhasiroon

They said: “If the wolf should eat him when we are a group, then will we be the losers.”

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-14.md_

### 24. Surah An-Nur, Verse 11

- **Form in this verse:** عُصْبَةٌۭ — ʿuṣ'batun · "(are) a group"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · nominative case · indefinite

اِنَّ الَّذ۪ينَ جَٓاؤُ۫ بِالْاِفْكِ عُصْبَةٌ مِنْكُمْۜ  لَا تَحْسَبُوهُ شَراًّ لَكُمْۜ بَلْ هُوَ خَيْرٌ لَكُمْۜ لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مِنْهُمْ مَا اكْتَسَبَ مِنَ الْاِثْمِۚ وَالَّذ۪ي تَوَلّٰى كِبْرَهُ مِنْهُمْ لَهُ عَذَابٌ عَظ۪يمٌ

Inna allatheena jaoo bil-ifkiAAusbatun minkum la tahsaboohu sharran lakumbal huwa khayrun lakum likulli imri-in minhum ma iktasabamina al-ithmi wallathee tawalla kibrahuminhum lahu AAathabun AAatheem

They who came with the falsehood are a group among you. Think it not an evil for you: — nay, it is good for you. For every man among them is what he earned of the sin. And who took upon himself the greater part thereof among them, for him is a great punishment.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nur/verse-11.md_

### 28. Surah Al-Qasas, Verse 76

- **Form in this verse:** بِٱلْعُصْبَةِ — bil-ʿuṣ'bati · "a company (of men)"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · genitive case

اِنَّ قَارُونَ كَانَ مِنْ قَوْمِ مُوسٰى فَبَغٰى عَلَيْهِمْۖ وَاٰتَيْنَاهُ مِنَ الْكُنُوزِ مَٓا اِنَّ مَفَاتِحَهُ لَتَنُٓوأُ بِالْعُصْبَةِ اُو۬لِي الْقُوَّةِۗ اِذْ قَالَ لَهُ قَوْمُهُ لَا تَفْرَحْ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يُحِبُّ الْفَرِح۪ينَ

Inna qaroona kana min qawmimoosa fabagha AAalayhim waataynahumina alkunoozi ma inna mafatihahu latanoo-obilAAusbati olee alquwwati ith qalalahu qawmuhu la tafrah inna Allaha layuhibbu alfariheen

Qārūn was of the people of Moses, but he oppressed them. And We had given him of treasures that whereof the keys weighed down a company of men endowed with strength. When his people said to him: “Exult thou not — God loves not the exultant —

_https://quran.so/surah-al-qasas/verse-76.md_

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