# Te-Sin-Ayn — تسع (tsE)

> Occurs in 7 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To be the ninth, nine.
- **Derived forms:** تِسْع (5) · تِسْعَة (2)

## Verses containing this root

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 101

- **Form in this verse:** تِسْعَ — tis'ʿa · "nine"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case

وَلَقَدْ اٰتَيْنَا مُوسٰى تِسْعَ اٰيَاتٍ بَيِّنَاتٍ فَسْـَٔلْ بَن۪ٓي اِسْرَٓائ۪لَ اِذْ جَٓاءَهُمْ فَقَالَ لَهُ فِرْعَوْنُ اِنّ۪ي لَاَظُنُّكَ يَا مُوسٰى مَسْحُوراً

Walaqad atayna moosatisAAa ayatin bayyinatin fas-albanee isra-eela ith jaahum faqalalahu firAAawnu innee laathunnuka ya moosamashoora

And We gave Moses nine clear proofs, so ask thou the children of Israel. When he came to them, and Pharaoh said to him: “I consider thee, O Moses, one taken by sorcery,”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-101.md_

### 18. Surah Al-Kahf, Verse 25

- **Form in this verse:** تِسْعًۭا — tis'ʿan · "nine"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَلَبِثُوا ف۪ي كَـهْفِهِمْ ثَلٰثَ مِائَةٍ سِن۪ينَ وَازْدَادُوا تِسْعاً

Walabithoo fee kahfihim thalathami-atin sineena wazdadoo tisAAa

“And they tarried in their cave three hundred years!” And they increased by nine.

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

### 27. Surah An-Naml, Verse 12

- **Form in this verse:** تِسْعِ — tis'ʿi · "nine"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · genitive case

وَاَدْخِلْ يَدَكَ ف۪ي جَيْبِكَ تَخْرُجْ بَيْضَٓاءَ مِنْ غَيْرِ سُٓوءٍ ف۪ي تِسْعِ اٰيَاتٍ اِلٰى فِرْعَوْنَ وَقَوْمِه۪ۜ اِنَّهُمْ كَانُوا قَوْماً فَاسِق۪ينَ

Waadkhil yadaka fee jaybika takhruj baydaamin ghayri soo-in fee tisAAi ayatin ilafirAAawna waqawmihi innahum kanoo qawman fasiqeen

“And enter thou thy hand into thy bosom; it will come forth white, without evil — among nine proofs to Pharaoh and his people; they are a perfidious people.”

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naml/verse-12.md_

### 27. Surah An-Naml, Verse 48

- **Form in this verse:** تِسْعَةُ — tis'ʿatu · "nine"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · nominative case

وَكَانَ فِي الْمَد۪ينَةِ تِسْعَةُ رَهْطٍ يُفْسِدُونَ فِي الْاَرْضِ وَلَا يُصْلِحُونَ

Wakana fee almadeenati tisAAatu rahtinyufsidoona fee al-ardi wala yuslihoon

And there were in the city nine men who wrought corruption in the land and did not right.

_https://quran.so/surah-an-naml/verse-48.md_

### 38. Surah Sad, Verse 23

- **Form in this verse:** تِسْعٌۭ — tis'ʿun · "ninety-nine"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · nominative case · indefinite

اِنَّ هٰذَٓا اَخ۪ي لَهُ تِسْعٌ وَتِسْعُونَ نَعْجَةً وَلِيَ نَعْجَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فَقَالَ اَكْفِلْن۪يهَا وَعَزَّن۪ي فِي الْخِطَابِ

Inna hatha akhee lahu tisAAunwatisAAoona naAAjatan waliya naAAjatun wahidatun faqalaakfilneeha waAAazzanee fee alkhitab

“This, my brother, has ninety-nine ewes, and I have one ewe; so he said: ‘Place thou her in my charge’; and he overcame me in speech.”

_https://quran.so/surah-sad/verse-23.md_

### 38. Surah Sad, Verse 23

- **Form in this verse:** وَتِسْعُونَ — watis'ʿūna · "ninety-nine"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine, plural · nominative case

اِنَّ هٰذَٓا اَخ۪ي لَهُ تِسْعٌ وَتِسْعُونَ نَعْجَةً وَلِيَ نَعْجَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ فَقَالَ اَكْفِلْن۪يهَا وَعَزَّن۪ي فِي الْخِطَابِ

Inna hatha akhee lahu tisAAunwatisAAoona naAAjatan waliya naAAjatun wahidatun faqalaakfilneeha waAAazzanee fee alkhitab

“This, my brother, has ninety-nine ewes, and I have one ewe; so he said: ‘Place thou her in my charge’; and he overcame me in speech.”

_https://quran.so/surah-sad/verse-23.md_

### 74. Surah Al-Muddaththir, Verse 30

- **Form in this verse:** تِسْعَةَ — tis'ʿata · "(are) nine"
  - **Grammar:** noun · feminine · accusative case

عَلَيْهَا تِسْعَةَ عَشَرَۜ

AAalayha tisAAata AAashar

Over it are nineteen;

_https://quran.so/surah-al-muddaththir/verse-30.md_

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