# Nun-Fe-Dal — نفد (nfd)

> Occurs in 5 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** to vanish, fail, cease, pass away, be exhausted, consumed, spent
- **Derived forms:** نَفِدَ (4) · نَّفَاد (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 16. Surah An-Nahl, Verse 96

- **Form in this verse:** يَنفَدُ ۖ — yanfadu · "will be exhausted"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, singular · present tense

مَا عِنْدَكُمْ يَنْفَدُ وَمَا عِنْدَ اللّٰهِ بَاقٍۜ وَلَنَجْزِيَنَّ الَّذ۪ينَ صَبَرُٓوا اَجْرَهُمْ بِاَحْسَنِ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

Ma AAindakum yanfadu wamaAAinda Allahi baqin walanajziyanna allatheenasabaroo ajrahum bi-ahsani ma kanooyaAAmaloon

What is with you has an end, and what is with God remains; and We will pay those who are patient their reward according to the best of what they did.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-nahl/verse-96.md_

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 109

- **Form in this verse:** لَنَفِدَ — lanafida · "surely (would be) exhausted"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, masculine, singular · past tense

قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَاداً لِكَلِمَاتِ رَبّ۪ي لَنَفِدَ الْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ اَنْ تَنْفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبّ۪ي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِه۪ مَدَداً

Qul law kana albahru midadanlikalimati rabbee lanafida albahru qabla an tanfadakalimatu rabbee walaw ji/na bimithlihi madada

Say thou: “Were the sea ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Lord were exhausted, though We brought the like thereof as replenishment.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-109.md_

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 109

- **Form in this verse:** تَنفَدَ — tanfada · "(were) exhausted"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَاداً لِكَلِمَاتِ رَبّ۪ي لَنَفِدَ الْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ اَنْ تَنْفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبّ۪ي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِه۪ مَدَداً

Qul law kana albahru midadanlikalimati rabbee lanafida albahru qabla an tanfadakalimatu rabbee walaw ji/na bimithlihi madada

Say thou: “Were the sea ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Lord were exhausted, though We brought the like thereof as replenishment.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-kahf/verse-109.md_

### 31. Surah Luqman, Verse 27

- **Form in this verse:** نَفِدَتْ — nafidat · "would be exhausted"
  - **Grammar:** verb · 3rd person, feminine, singular · past tense

وَلَوْ اَنَّ مَا فِي الْاَرْضِ مِنْ شَجَرَةٍ اَقْلَامٌ وَالْبَحْرُ يَمُدُّهُ مِنْ بَعْدِه۪ سَبْعَةُ اَبْحُرٍ مَا نَفِدَتْ كَلِمَاتُ اللّٰهِۜ اِنَّ اللّٰهَ عَز۪يزٌ حَك۪يمٌ

Walaw annama fee al-ardi minshajaratin aqlamun walbahru yamudduhu minbaAAdihi sabAAatu abhurin ma nafidat kalimatuAllahi inna Allaha AAazeezun hakeem

And had all that is in the earth of trees been but pens, and the sea replenished thereafter with seven seas, the words of God would not be exhausted; God is exalted in might and wise.

_https://quran.so/surah-luqman/verse-27.md_

### 38. Surah Sad, Verse 54

- **Form in this verse:** نَّفَادٍ — nafādin · "depletion"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case · indefinite

اِنَّ هٰذَا لَرِزْقُنَا مَا لَهُ مِنْ نَفَادٍۚ

Inna hatha larizquna malahu min nafad

This is Our provision; it has no depletion.

_https://quran.so/surah-sad/verse-54.md_

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