# Te-Be-Ra — تبر (tbr)

> Occurs in 6 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To break/destroy/ruin/perish/lose/smash/crumble, perdition/destruction.
- **Derived forms:** تَبَار (1) · تَبَّرْ (2) · تَتْبِير (2) · مُتَبَّر (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 139

- **Form in this verse:** مُتَبَّرٌۭ — mutabbarun · "destroyed"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of tef'il · passive · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

اِنَّ هٰٓؤُ۬لَٓاءِ مُتَبَّرٌ مَا هُمْ ف۪يهِ وَبَاطِلٌ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ

Inna haola-i mutabbarun mahum feehi wabatilun ma kanoo yaAAmaloon

“These: doomed to ruin is what they are in, and vain is what they have been doing.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-araf/verse-139.md_

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** وَلِيُتَبِّرُوا۟ — waliyutabbirū · "and to destroy"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tef'il · 3rd person, masculine, plural · present tense

اِنْ اَحْسَنْتُمْ اَحْسَنْتُمْ لِاَنْفُسِكُمْ وَاِنْ اَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَاۜ فَاِذَا جَٓاءَ وَعْدُ الْاٰخِرَةِ لِيَسُٓؤُ۫ا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَلِيَدْخُلُوا الْمَسْجِدَ كَمَا دَخَلُوهُ اَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَلِيُتَبِّرُوا مَا عَلَوْا تَتْب۪يراً

In ahsantum ahsantumli-anfusikum wa-in asa/tum falaha fa-itha jaawaAAdu al-akhirati liyasoo-oo wujoohakum waliyadkhulooalmasjida kama dakhaloohu awwala marratin waliyutabbiroo maAAalaw tatbeera

If you do good, you do good to your souls; and if you do evil, it is to them. Then when the promise of the latter came[...], that they should disgrace your faces, and enter the place of worship as they entered it the first time, and destroy all that they overcame with destruction.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-7.md_

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 7

- **Form in this verse:** تَتْبِيرًا — tatbīran · "(with) destruction"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of tef'il · noun-verb · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

اِنْ اَحْسَنْتُمْ اَحْسَنْتُمْ لِاَنْفُسِكُمْ وَاِنْ اَسَأْتُمْ فَلَهَاۜ فَاِذَا جَٓاءَ وَعْدُ الْاٰخِرَةِ لِيَسُٓؤُ۫ا وُجُوهَكُمْ وَلِيَدْخُلُوا الْمَسْجِدَ كَمَا دَخَلُوهُ اَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ وَلِيُتَبِّرُوا مَا عَلَوْا تَتْب۪يراً

In ahsantum ahsantumli-anfusikum wa-in asa/tum falaha fa-itha jaawaAAdu al-akhirati liyasoo-oo wujoohakum waliyadkhulooalmasjida kama dakhaloohu awwala marratin waliyutabbiroo maAAalaw tatbeera

If you do good, you do good to your souls; and if you do evil, it is to them. Then when the promise of the latter came[...], that they should disgrace your faces, and enter the place of worship as they entered it the first time, and destroy all that they overcame with destruction.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-7.md_

### 25. Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 39

- **Form in this verse:** تَبَّرْنَا — tabbarnā · "We destroyed"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of tef'il · 1st person, plural · past tense

وَكُلاًّ ضَرَبْنَا لَهُ الْاَمْثَالَۘ وَكُلاًّ تَبَّرْنَا تَتْب۪يراً

Wakullan darabna lahu al-amthalawakullan tabbarna tatbeera

And for each We struck similitudes; and each We destroyed utterly.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-furqan/verse-39.md_

### 25. Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 39

- **Form in this verse:** تَتْبِيرًۭا — tatbīran · "(with) destruction"
  - **Grammar:** noun · pattern of tef'il · noun-verb · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَكُلاًّ ضَرَبْنَا لَهُ الْاَمْثَالَۘ وَكُلاًّ تَبَّرْنَا تَتْب۪يراً

Wakullan darabna lahu al-amthalawakullan tabbarna tatbeera

And for each We struck similitudes; and each We destroyed utterly.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-furqan/verse-39.md_

### 71. Surah Nuh, Verse 28

- **Form in this verse:** تَبَارًۢا — tabāran · "(in) destruction"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

رَبِّ اغْفِرْ ل۪ي وَلِوَالِدَيَّ وَلِمَنْ دَخَلَ بَيْتِيَ مُؤْمِناً وَلِلْمُؤْمِن۪ينَ وَالْمُؤْمِنَاتِۜ وَلَا تَزِدِ الظَّالِم۪ينَ اِلَّا تَبَاراً

Rabbi ighfir lee waliwalidayyawaliman dakhala baytiya mu/minan walilmu/mineena walmu/minatiwala tazidi aththalimeena illatabaran

“My Lord: forgive Thou me and my parents, and him who enters my house as a believer, and the believing men, and the believing women. And increase Thou not the wrongdoers save in ruin!”

_https://quran.so/surah-nuh/verse-28.md_

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