# Sad-Be-Vav — صبو (Sbw)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To incline towards childhood, to emulate youth, to fall in love, to be captivated, to tend towards, to lean, to long for, to be inclined, to act childishly, to be a member of the Sabian religion
- **Derived forms:** أَصْبُ (1) · صَبِيّ (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 33

- **Form in this verse:** أَصْبُ — aṣbu · "I might incline"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 1st person, singular · present tense

قَالَ رَبِّ السِّجْنُ اَحَبُّ اِلَيَّ مِمَّا يَدْعُونَن۪ٓي اِلَيْهِۚ وَاِلَّا تَصْرِفْ عَنّ۪ي كَيْدَهُنَّ اَصْبُ اِلَيْهِنَّ وَاَكُنْ مِنَ الْجَاهِل۪ينَ

Qala rabbi assijnu ahabbuilayya mimma yadAAoonanee ilayhi wa-illa tasrifAAannee kaydahunna asbu ilayhinna waakun mina aljahileen

He said: “My Lord: prison is preferable to me than that to which they invite me; and save Thou divert their plan from me, I will incline to them and be of the ignorant.”

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-33.md_

### 19. Surah Maryam, Verse 12

- **Form in this verse:** صَبِيًّۭا — ṣabiyyan · "(when he was) a child"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

يَا يَحْيٰى خُذِ الْكِتَابَ بِقُوَّةٍۜ وَاٰتَيْنَاهُ الْحُكْمَ صَبِياًّۙ

Ya yahya khuthialkitaba biquwwatin waataynahu alhukmasabiyya

“O John: hold thou fast the Writ!” And We gave him judgment when a child,

_https://quran.so/surah-maryam/verse-12.md_

### 19. Surah Maryam, Verse 29

- **Form in this verse:** صَبِيًّۭا — ṣabiyyan · "a child"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

فَاَشَارَتْ اِلَيْهِ۠ قَالُوا كَيْفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَنْ كَانَ فِي الْمَهْدِ صَبِياًّ

Faasharat ilayhi qaloo kayfanukallimu man kana fee almahdi sabiyya

Then she pointed to him. They said: “How can we speak to one who is in the cradle a child?”

_https://quran.so/surah-maryam/verse-29.md_

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