# Sad-Ra-Ra — صرر (Srr)

> Occurs in 6 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to resolve, persist, persevere in. asarra (vb. 4) - to be obstinate, persist obstinately. asarruu - they persisted. sirrun - intense cold. sarratin - moaning, vociferating.
- **Derived forms:** أَصَرُّ (4) · صِرّ (1) · صَرَّة (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 117

- **Form in this verse:** صِرٌّ — ṣirrun · "(is) frost"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

مَثَلُ مَا يُنْفِقُونَ ف۪ي هٰذِهِ الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ ر۪يحٍ ف۪يهَا صِرٌّ اَصَابَتْ حَرْثَ قَوْمٍ ظَلَمُٓوا اَنْفُسَهُمْ فَاَهْلَكَتْهُۜ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اللّٰهُ وَلٰكِنْ اَنْفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ

Mathalu ma yunfiqoona fee hathihialhayati addunya kamathali reehinfeeha sirrun asabat hartha qawmin thalamooanfusahum faahlakat-hu wama thalamahumu Allahuwalakin anfusahum yathlimoon

The likeness of what they spend in the life of this world is as the likeness of a wind wherein was biting cold: it befell the tilth of a people who wronged their souls and destroyed it; and God wronged them not, but they wronged themselves.

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-117.md_

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 135

- **Form in this verse:** يُصِرُّوا۟ — yuṣirrū · "they persist"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

وَالَّذ۪ينَ اِذَا فَعَلُوا فَاحِشَةً اَوْ ظَلَمُٓوا اَنْفُسَهُمْ ذَكَرُوا اللّٰهَ فَاسْتَغْفَرُوا لِذُنُوبِهِمْۖ وَمَنْ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ اِلَّا اللّٰهُۖ وَلَمْ يُصِرُّوا عَلٰى مَا فَعَلُوا وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

Wallatheena ithafaAAaloo fahishatan aw thalamoo anfusahum thakarooAllaha fastaghfaroo lithunoobihim wamanyaghfiru aththunooba illa Allahuwalam yusirroo AAala ma faAAaloo wahumyaAAlamoon

And those who, when they commit sexual immorality or wrong their souls, remember God, and ask forgiveness for their transgressions — and who forgives transgressions save God? — and persist not in what they did when they know.

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-135.md_

### 45. Surah Al-Jathiyah, Verse 8

- **Form in this verse:** يُصِرُّ — yuṣirru · "persists"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

يَسْمَعُ اٰيَاتِ اللّٰهِ تُتْلٰى عَلَيْهِ ثُمَّ يُصِرُّ مُسْتَكْبِراً كَاَنْ لَمْ يَسْمَعْهَاۚ فَبَشِّرْهُ بِعَذَابٍ اَل۪يمٍ

YasmaAAu ayati Allahitutla AAalayhi thumma yusirru mustakbiran kaan lamyasmaAAha fabashshirhu biAAathabin aleem

Who hears the proofs of God recited to him then persists in waxing proud as if he heard them not! Then give thou him tidings of a painful punishment.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-jathiyah/verse-8.md_

### 51. Surah Adh-Dhariyat, Verse 29

- **Form in this verse:** صَرَّةٍۢ — ṣarratin · "a loud voice"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · genitive case · indefinite

فَاَقْبَلَتِ امْرَاَتُهُ ف۪ي صَرَّةٍ فَصَكَّتْ وَجْهَهَا وَقَالَتْ عَجُوزٌ عَق۪يمٌ

Faaqbalati imraatuhu fee sarratin fasakkatwajhaha waqalat AAajoozun AAaqeem

And his wife came forward, crying out, and struck her face, and said: “A barren old woman!”

_https://quran.so/surah-adh-dhariyat/verse-29.md_

### 56. Surah Al-Waqi'ah, Verse 46

- **Form in this verse:** يُصِرُّونَ — yuṣirrūna · "persisting"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

وَكَانُوا يُصِرُّونَ عَلَى الْحِنْثِ الْعَظ۪يمِۚ

Wakanoo yusirroona AAalaalhinthi alAAatheem

And persisted in the Great Perjury,

_https://quran.so/surah-al-waqiah/verse-46.md_

### 71. Surah Nuh, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** وَأَصَرُّوا۟ — wa-aṣarrū · "and persisted"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, plural · past tense

وَاِنّ۪ي كُلَّمَا دَعَوْتُهُمْ لِتَغْفِرَ لَهُمْ جَعَلُٓوا اَصَابِعَهُمْ ف۪ٓي اٰذَانِهِمْ وَاسْتَغْشَوْا ثِيَابَهُمْ وَاَصَرُّوا وَاسْتَكْبَرُوا اسْتِكْبَاراًۚ

Wa-innee kullama daAAawtuhumlitaghfira lahum jaAAaloo asabiAAahum fee athanihimwastaghshaw thiyabahum waasarroo wastakbarooistikbara

“And whenever I called them, that Thou mightest forgive them, they put their fingers in their ears and covered themselves with their garments, and persisted, and waxed proudly insolent.

_https://quran.so/surah-nuh/verse-7.md_

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