# Gayn-Ye-Zay — غيظ (gyZ)

> Occurs in 11 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to irritate, incense, provoke, confuse, anger, wrath, rage, vehemence, distress; cooking-pot
- **Derived forms:** تَغَيُّظ (1) · غَائِظُون (1) · غَيْظ (6) · يَغِيظُ (3)

## Verses containing this root

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 119

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْغَيْظِ ۚ — l-ghayẓi · "[the] rage"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

هَٓا اَنْتُمْ اُو۬لَٓاءِ تُحِبُّونَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِبُّونَكُمْ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْكِتَابِ كُلِّه۪ۚ وَاِذَا لَقُوكُمْ قَالُٓوا اٰمَنَّاۗ وَاِذَا خَلَوْا عَضُّوا عَلَيْكُمُ الْاَنَامِلَ مِنَ الْغَيْظِۜ قُلْ مُوتُوا بِغَيْظِكُمْۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ عَل۪يمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ

Ha antum ola-i tuhibboonahumwala yuhibboonakum watu/minoona bilkitabikullihi wa-itha laqookum qaloo amannawa-itha khalaw AAaddoo AAalaykumu al-anamilamina alghaythi qul mootoo bighaythikuminna Allaha AAaleemun bithati assudoor

Here you are, those who love them; and they love you not, when you believe in the Writ — all of it. And when they meet you, they say: “We believe,” but when they are alone, they bite their fingertips at you from rage. Say thou: “Die in your rage, God knows what is in the breasts.”

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-119.md_

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 119

- **Form in this verse:** بِغَيْظِكُمْ ۗ — bighayẓikum · "in your rage"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

هَٓا اَنْتُمْ اُو۬لَٓاءِ تُحِبُّونَهُمْ وَلَا يُحِبُّونَكُمْ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْكِتَابِ كُلِّه۪ۚ وَاِذَا لَقُوكُمْ قَالُٓوا اٰمَنَّاۗ وَاِذَا خَلَوْا عَضُّوا عَلَيْكُمُ الْاَنَامِلَ مِنَ الْغَيْظِۜ قُلْ مُوتُوا بِغَيْظِكُمْۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ عَل۪يمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ

Ha antum ola-i tuhibboonahumwala yuhibboonakum watu/minoona bilkitabikullihi wa-itha laqookum qaloo amannawa-itha khalaw AAaddoo AAalaykumu al-anamilamina alghaythi qul mootoo bighaythikuminna Allaha AAaleemun bithati assudoor

Here you are, those who love them; and they love you not, when you believe in the Writ — all of it. And when they meet you, they say: “We believe,” but when they are alone, they bite their fingertips at you from rage. Say thou: “Die in your rage, God knows what is in the breasts.”

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-119.md_

### 3. Surah Ali 'Imran, Verse 134

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْغَيْظَ — l-ghayẓa · "the anger"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

اَلَّذ۪ينَ يُنْفِقُونَ فِي السَّرَّٓاءِ وَالضَّرَّٓاءِ وَالْكَاظِم۪ينَ الْغَيْظَ وَالْعَاف۪ينَ عَنِ النَّاسِۜ وَاللّٰهُ يُحِبُّ الْمُحْسِن۪ينَۚ

Allatheena yunfiqoona fee assarra-iwaddarra-i walkathimeenaalghaytha walAAafeena AAani annasiwallahu yuhibbu almuhsineen

Those who spend in prosperity and in adversity, and who control their wrath, and forgive men; and God loves the doers of good;

_https://quran.so/surah-ali-imran/verse-134.md_

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 15

- **Form in this verse:** غَيْظَ — ghayẓa · "(the) anger"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

وَيُذْهِبْ غَيْظَ قُلُوبِهِمْۜ وَيَتُوبُ اللّٰهُ عَلٰى مَنْ يَشَٓاءُۜ وَاللّٰهُ عَل۪يمٌ حَك۪يمٌ

Wayuthhib ghaythaquloobihim wayatoobu Allahu AAala man yashaowallahu AAaleemun hakeem

And remove the wrath of their hearts; and God relents towards whom He wills; and God is knowing and wise.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-15.md_

### 9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 120

- **Form in this verse:** يَغِيظُ — yaghīẓu · "that angers"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

مَا كَانَ لِاَهْلِ الْمَد۪ينَةِ وَمَنْ حَوْلَهُمْ مِنَ الْاَعْرَابِ اَنْ يَتَخَلَّفُوا عَنْ رَسُولِ اللّٰهِ وَلَا يَرْغَبُوا بِاَنْفُسِهِمْ عَنْ نَفْسِه۪ۜ ذٰلِكَ بِاَنَّهُمْ لَا يُص۪يبُهُمْ ظَمَاٌ وَلَا نَصَبٌ وَلَا مَخْمَصَةٌ ف۪ي سَب۪يلِ اللّٰهِ وَلَا يَطَؤُ۫نَ مَوْطِئاً يَغ۪يظُ الْكُفَّارَ وَلَا يَنَالُونَ مِنْ عَدُوٍّ نَيْلاً اِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُمْ بِه۪ عَمَلٌ صَالِحٌۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ لَا يُض۪يعُ اَجْرَ الْمُحْسِن۪ينَۙ

Ma kana li-ahli almadeenatiwaman hawlahum mina al-aAArabi an yatakhallafooAAan rasooli Allahi wala yarghaboo bi-anfusihimAAan nafsihi thalika bi-annahum la yuseebuhumthamaon wala nasabun walamakhmasatun fee sabeeli Allahi wala yataoonamawti-an yagheethu alkuffara walayanaloona min AAaduwwin naylan illa kutiba lahumbihi AAamalun salihun inna Allaha layudeeAAu ajra almuhsineen

It is not for the people of the city and those around them of the desert Arabs to remain behind the messenger of God, and prefer their lives to his life. Is it not that there befalls them neither thirst, nor fatigue, nor hunger, in the cause of God, neither take they any step that enrages the atheists, nor achieve they against the enemy an attainment save that it is recorded for them as a righteous deed! God causes not to be lost the reward of the doers of good.

_https://quran.so/surah-at-tawbah/verse-120.md_

### 22. Surah Al-Hajj, Verse 15

- **Form in this verse:** يَغِيظُ — yaghīẓu · "enrages"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

مَنْ كَانَ يَظُنُّ اَنْ لَنْ يَنْصُرَهُ اللّٰهُ فِي الدُّنْيَا وَالْاٰخِرَةِ فَلْيَمْدُدْ بِسَبَبٍ اِلَى السَّمَٓاءِ ثُمَّ لْيَقْطَعْ فَلْيَنْظُرْ هَلْ يُذْهِبَنَّ كَيْدُهُ مَا يَغ۪يظُ

Man kana yathunnu anlan yansurahu Allahu fee addunya wal-akhiratifalyamdud bisababin ila assama-i thummaliyaqtaAA falyanthur hal yuthhibannakayduhu ma yagheeth

Whoso thinks that God will not help him in the World and the Hereafter: let him stretch out means to the sky; then let him cross and let him look: will his plan remove what enrages?

_https://quran.so/surah-al-hajj/verse-15.md_

### 25. Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 12

- **Form in this verse:** تَغَيُّظًۭا — taghayyuẓan · "raging"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of tefa'ul · noun-verb · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

اِذَا رَاَتْهُمْ مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَع۪يدٍ سَمِعُوا لَهَا تَغَيُّظاً وَزَف۪يراً

Itha raat-hum min makaninbaAAeedin samiAAoo laha taghayyuthanwazafeera

When it sees them from a place far away, they will hear the fury and the roaring thereof.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-furqan/verse-12.md_

### 26. Surah Ash-Shu'ara, Verse 55

- **Form in this verse:** لَغَآئِظُونَ — laghāiẓūna · "(are) surely enraging"
  - **Grammar:** noun · active · masculine, plural · nominative case

وَاِنَّهُمْ لَنَا لَـغَٓائِظُونَۙ

Wa-innahum lana lagha-ithoon

“But they do enrage us

_https://quran.so/surah-ash-shuara/verse-55.md_

### 33. Surah Al-Ahzab, Verse 25

- **Form in this verse:** بِغَيْظِهِمْ — bighayẓihim · "in their rage"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَرَدَّ اللّٰهُ الَّذ۪ينَ كَفَرُوا بِغَيْظِهِمْ لَمْ يَنَالُوا خَيْراًۜ وَكَفَى اللّٰهُ الْمُؤْمِن۪ينَ الْقِتَالَۜ وَكَانَ اللّٰهُ قَوِياًّ عَز۪يزاًۚ

Waradda Allahu allatheenakafaroo bighaythihim lam yanaloo khayranwakafa Allahu almu/mineena alqitala wakanaAllahu qawiyyan AAazeeza

And God repelled those who ignored warning in their wrath — they have not attained to good; and God sufficed the believers in the fight; and God is strong and exalted in might.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-ahzab/verse-25.md_

### 48. Surah Al-Fath, Verse 29

- **Form in this verse:** لِيَغِيظَ — liyaghīẓa · "that He (may) enrage"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ اللّٰهِۜ وَالَّذ۪ينَ مَعَهُٓ  اَشِدَّٓاءُ عَلَى الْكُفَّارِ رُحَمَٓاءُ بَيْنَهُمْ تَرٰيهُمْ رُكَّعاً سُجَّداً يَبْتَغُونَ فَضْلاً مِنَ اللّٰهِ وَرِضْوَاناًۘ س۪يمَاهُمْ ف۪ي وُجُوهِهِمْ مِنْ اَثَرِ السُّجُودِۜ ذٰلِكَ مَثَلُهُمْ فِي التَّوْرٰيةِۚۛ وَمَثَلُهُمْ فِي الْاِنْج۪يلِ۠ۛ   كَزَرْعٍ اَخْرَجَ شَطْـَٔهُ۫ فَاٰزَرَهُ فَاسْتَغْلَظَ فَاسْتَوٰى عَلٰى سُوقِه۪ يُعْجِبُ الزُّرَّاعَ لِيَغ۪يظَ بِهِمُ الْكُفَّارَۜ وَعَدَ اللّٰهُ الَّذ۪ينَ اٰمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ مِنْهُمْ مَغْفِرَةً وَاَجْراً عَظ۪يماً

Muhammadun rasoolu Allahi wallatheenamaAAahu ashiddao AAala alkuffari ruhamaobaynahum tarahum rukkaAAan sujjadan yabtaghoona fadlanmina Allahi waridwanan seemahum feewujoohihim min athari assujoodi thalika mathaluhumfee attawrati wamathaluhum fee al-injeelikazarAAin akhraja shat-ahu faazarahu fastaghlathafastawa AAala sooqihi yuAAjibu azzurraAAaliyagheetha bihimu alkuffara waAAada Allahuallatheena amanoo waAAamiloo assalihatiminhum maghfiratan waajran AAatheema

Muḥammad is the messenger of God. And those with him are hard against the atheists, merciful among themselves — thou seest them lowly, in submission, seeking favour from God and approval, their mark on their faces of the effects of the Submission — that is their likeness in the Torah. And their likeness in the Gospel is like a seed that put forth its shoot, and strengthens it, and established itself upon its stem pleasing the sowers, that by them He might enrage the atheists. God has promised those who heed warning and do righteous deeds among them forgiveness and a great reward.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-fath/verse-29.md_

### 67. Surah Al-Mulk, Verse 8

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلْغَيْظِ ۖ — l-ghayẓi · "rage"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

تَكَادُ تَمَيَّزُ مِنَ الْغَيْظِۜ  كُلَّمَٓا اُلْقِيَ ف۪يهَا فَوْجٌ سَاَلَهُمْ خَزَنَتُهَٓا اَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ نَذ۪يرٌ

Takadu tamayyazu mina alghaythikullama olqiya feeha fawjun saalahum khazanatuhaalam ya/tikum natheer

Almost bursting with rage. Whenever a crowd is cast therein, the keepers thereof ask them: “Came there not to you a warner?”

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

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