# Zal-Elif-Be — ذاب (pAb)

> Occurs in 3 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To collect/gather, expel, despise, urge, frighten
- **Derived forms:** ذِّئْب (3)

## Verses containing this root

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 13

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلذِّئْبُ — l-dhi'bu · "a wolf"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

قَالَ اِنّ۪ي لَيَحْزُنُن۪ٓي اَنْ تَذْهَبُوا بِه۪ وَاَخَافُ اَنْ يَأْكُلَهُ الذِّئْبُ وَاَنْتُمْ عَنْهُ غَافِلُونَ

Qala innee layahzununee an thathhaboobihi waakhafu an ya/kulahu aththi/buwaantum AAanhu ghafiloon

He said: “It grieves me that you should go with him; and I fear lest the wolf should eat him when you are unmindful of him.”

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-13.md_

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 14

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلذِّئْبُ — l-dhi'bu · "the wolf"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

قَالُوا لَئِنْ اَكَلَهُ الذِّئْبُ وَنَحْنُ عُصْبَةٌ اِنَّٓا اِذاً لَخَاسِرُونَ

Qaloo la-in akalahu aththi/buwanahnu AAusbatun inna ithan lakhasiroon

They said: “If the wolf should eat him when we are a group, then will we be the losers.”

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-14.md_

### 12. Surah Yusuf, Verse 17

- **Form in this verse:** ٱلذِّئْبُ ۖ — l-dhi'bu · "the wolf"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case

قَالُوا يَٓا اَبَانَٓا اِنَّا ذَهَبْنَا نَسْتَبِقُ وَتَرَكْنَا يُوسُفَ عِنْدَ مَتَاعِنَا فَاَكَلَهُ الذِّئْبُۚ وَمَٓا اَنْتَ بِمُؤْمِنٍ لَنَا وَلَوْ كُنَّا صَادِق۪ينَ

Qaloo ya abanainna thahabna nastabiqu wataraknayoosufa AAinda mataAAina faakalahu aththi/buwama anta bimu/minin lana walaw kunna sadiqeen

They said: “O our father: we went to run races, and left Joseph with our goods — and the wolf ate him; and thou wouldst not believe us, though we were truthful.”

_https://quran.so/surah-yusuf/verse-17.md_

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