# Nun-Kef-Be — نكب (nkb)

> Occurs in 2 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To go aside, swerve from, render unhappy (circumstances), blow oblique (wind), defend, protect, incline, hurt, throw a thing away, deviate, turn aside
- **Derived forms:** مَنَاكِب (1) · نَٰكِبُون (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 23. Surah Al-Mu'minun, Verse 74

- **Form in this verse:** لَنَـٰكِبُونَ — lanākibūna · "surely (are) deviating"
  - **Grammar:** noun · active · masculine, plural · nominative case

وَاِنَّ  الَّذ۪ينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِالْاٰخِرَةِ عَنِ الصِّرَاطِ لَنَاكِبُونَ

Wa-inna allatheena layu/minoona bil-akhirati AAani assiratilanakiboon

And those who believe not in the Hereafter are deviating from the path.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-muminun/verse-74.md_

### 67. Surah Al-Mulk, Verse 15

- **Form in this verse:** مَنَاكِبِهَا — manākibihā · "(the) paths thereof"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · genitive case

هُوَ الَّذ۪ي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ الْاَرْضَ ذَلُولاً فَامْشُوا ف۪ي مَنَاكِبِهَا وَكُلُوا مِنْ رِزْقِه۪ۜ  وَاِلَيْهِ النُّشُورُ

Huwa allathee jaAAala lakumu al-ardathaloolan famshoo fee manakibihawakuloo min rizqihi wa-ilayhi annushoor

He it is that made the earth responsive for you; so walk in the tracts thereof, and eat of His provision; and to Him is the Resurrection.

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

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