# Gayn-Vav-Ra — غور (gwr)

> Occurs in 4 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** low land or country, has gone quickly, entered deeply, examine minutely or deeply, sank or become depressed; bestow upon; alighting or sleeping in the middle of the day; hasten, pushed, pressed, quickly; sudden, unexpected; derived, obtained; swollen; cave in a mountain; army; the bottom or lowest part; the sun; abundance of the produce of the earth
- **Derived forms:** غَار (1) · غَوْر (2) · مَغَٰرَٰت (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 40

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْغَارِ — l-ghāri · "the cave"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

اِلَّا تَنْصُرُوهُ فَقَدْ نَصَرَهُ اللّٰهُ اِذْ اَخْرَجَهُ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا ثَانِيَ اثْنَيْنِ اِذْ هُمَا فِي الْغَارِ اِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَاحِبِه۪ لَا تَحْزَنْ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ مَعَنَاۚ فَاَنْزَلَ اللّٰهُ سَك۪ينَتَهُ عَلَيْهِ وَاَيَّدَهُ بِجُنُودٍ لَمْ تَرَوْهَا وَجَعَلَ كَلِمَةَ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا السُّفْلٰىۜ وَكَلِمَةُ اللّٰهِ هِيَ الْعُلْيَاۜ وَاللّٰهُ عَز۪يزٌ حَك۪يمٌ

Illa tansuroohu faqad nasarahuAllahu ith akhrajahu allatheena kafaroo thaniyaithnayni ith huma fee alghari ithyaqoolu lisahibihi la tahzan inna AllahamaAAana faanzala Allahu sakeenatahu AAalayhiwaayyadahu bijunoodin lam tarawha wajaAAala kalimata allatheenakafaroo assufla wakalimatu Allahi hiyaalAAulya wallahu AAazeezun hakeem

Save you help him. And God helped him when those who ignore warning turned him out, the second of two, when they were in the cave, when he said to his companion: “Grieve thou not; God is with us.” Then God sent down His tranquillity upon him, and strengthened him with forces you did not see, and made the word of those who ignore warning the lowest; and the word of God, it is the uppermost; and God is exalted in might and wise.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-40.md_

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 57

- **Form in this verse:** مَغَـٰرَٰتٍ — maghārātin · "caves"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine, plural · genitive case · indefinite

لَوْ يَجِدُونَ مَلْجَـٔاً اَوْ مَغَارَاتٍ اَوْ مُدَّخَلاً لَوَلَّوْا اِلَيْهِ وَهُمْ يَجْمَحُونَ

Law yajidoona maljaan aw magharatinaw muddakhalan lawallaw ilayhi wahum yajmahoon

Had they found a refuge, or caves, or a place to enter, they would turn towards it and bolt away.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-57.md_

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 41

- **Form in this verse:** غَوْرًۭا — ghawran · "sunken"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

اَوْ يُصْبِحَ مَٓاؤُ۬هَا غَوْراً فَلَنْ تَسْتَط۪يعَ لَهُ طَلَباً

Aw yusbiha maohaghawran falan tastateeAAa lahu talaba

“Or its water becomes sunken so that thou canst not find it.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-41.md_

### 67. Surah Al-Mulk, Verse 30

- **Form in this verse:** غَوْرًۭا — ghawran · "sunken"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

قُلْ اَرَاَيْتُمْ اِنْ اَصْبَحَ مَٓاؤُ۬كُمْ غَوْراً فَمَنْ يَأْت۪يكُمْ بِمَٓاءٍ مَع۪ينٍ

Qul araaytum in asbaha maokumghawran faman ya/teekum bima-in maAAeen

Say thou: “Have you considered: if your water should become sunken, then who would bring you running water?”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-mulk/verse-30.md_

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