# Fe-Lam-Kaf — فلق (flq)

> Occurs in 4 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** it became split/cleft/cloven/cracked, divided it lengthwise, fissure, longitudinal division, daybreak/dawn, uttered/performed what was admirable/wonderful, to strive/exert, become big/bulky/fat/plump, whole creation, all beings/things that are created, a piece/fragment broken off, the cleaver.
- **Derived forms:** فَالِق (2) · فَلَق (1) · ٱنفَلَقَ (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 95

- **Form in this verse:** فَالِقُ — fāliqu · "(is the) Cleaver"
  - **Grammar:** noun · active · masculine · nominative case

اِنَّ اللّٰهَ فَالِقُ الْحَبِّ وَالنَّوٰىۜ يُخْرِجُ الْحَيَّ مِنَ الْمَيِّتِ وَمُخْرِجُ الْمَيِّتِ مِنَ الْحَيِّۜ ذٰلِكُمُ اللّٰهُ فَاَنّٰى تُؤْفَكُونَ

Inna Allaha faliqu alhabbiwannawa yukhriju alhayya mina almayyitiwamukhriju almayyiti mina alhayyi thalikumu Allahufaanna tu/fakoon

God splits the seed and the kernel; He brings forth the living from the dead and is the bringer-forth of the dead from the living. That is God, — how then are you deluded? —

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-95.md_

### 6. Surah Al-An'am, Verse 96

- **Form in this verse:** فَالِقُ — fāliqu · "(He is the) Cleaver"
  - **Grammar:** noun · active · masculine · nominative case

فَالِقُ الْاِصْبَاحِۚ وَجَعَلَ الَّيْلَ سَكَناً وَالشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ حُسْبَاناًۜ ذٰلِكَ تَقْد۪يرُ الْعَز۪يزِ الْعَل۪يمِ

Faliqu al-isbahiwajaAAala allayla sakanan washshamsa walqamara husbananthalika taqdeeru alAAazeezi alAAaleem

The cleaver of daybreak; and He has appointed the night as rest, and the sun and the moon for reckoning. That is the determination of the Exalted in Might, the Knowing.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-anam/verse-96.md_

### 26. Surah Ash-Shu'ara, Verse 63

- **Form in this verse:** فَٱنفَلَقَ — fa-infalaqa · "So it parted"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of infi'al · 3rd person, masculine, singular · past tense

فَاَوْحَيْنَٓا اِلٰى مُوسٰٓى اَنِ اضْرِبْ بِعَصَاكَ الْبَحْرَۜ فَانْفَلَقَ فَكَانَ كُلُّ فِرْقٍ كَالطَّوْدِ الْعَظ۪يمِۚ

Faawhayna ila moosaani idrib biAAasaka albahra fanfalaqafakana kullu firqin kattawdi alAAatheem

Then We instructed Moses: “Strike thou the sea with thy staff”; and it parted, and each part was like a great towering mountain.

_https://quran.so/surah-ash-shuara/verse-63.md_

### 113. Surah Al-Falaq, Verse 1

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْفَلَقِ — l-falaqi · "(of) the dawn"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

قُلْ اَعُوذُ بِرَبِّ الْفَلَقِۙ

Qul aAAoothu birabbi alfalaq

Say thou: “I seek refuge in the Lord of the Daybreak

_https://quran.so/surah-al-falaq/verse-1.md_

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