# Se-Be-Ra — ثبر (vbr)

> Occurs in 5 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To keep back, confine/limit/prevent/withhold/restrain/hinder, to deny/prohibit/refuse, render unsuccessful, to prevent one from doing or attaining something, go astray, lose, perish/destroy, disappoint, expel, curse. To work at something diligently/constantly.
- **Derived forms:** ثُبُور (4) · مَثْبُور (1)

## Verses containing this root

### 17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 102

- **Form in this verse:** مَثْبُورًۭا — mathbūran · "(you are) destroyed"
  - **Grammar:** noun · passive · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

قَالَ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَٓا اَنْزَلَ هٰٓؤُ۬لَٓاءِ اِلَّا رَبُّ السَّمٰوَاتِ وَالْاَرْضِ بَصَٓائِرَۚ وَاِنّ۪ي لَاَظُنُّكَ يَا فِرْعَوْنُ مَثْبُوراً

Qala laqad AAalimta ma anzalahaola-i illa rabbu assamawatiwal-ardi basa-ira wa-innee laathunnukaya firAAawnu mathboora

He said: “Thou hast known that there sends these down only the Lord of the Heavens and the Earth as a means of insight; and I consider thee, O Pharaoh, destroyed.”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-isra/verse-102.md_

### 25. Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 13

- **Form in this verse:** ثُبُورًۭا — thubūran · "(for) destruction"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

وَاِذَٓا اُلْقُوا مِنْهَا مَكَاناً ضَيِّقاً مُقَرَّن۪ينَ دَعَوْا هُنَالِكَ ثُبُوراًۜ

Wa-itha olqoo minha makanandayyiqan muqarraneena daAAaw hunalika thuboora

And when they are cast therefrom into a narrow place bound together, they will call thereupon for destruction.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-furqan/verse-13.md_

### 25. Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 14

- **Form in this verse:** ثُبُورًۭا — thubūran · "(for) destruction"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

لَا تَدْعُوا الْيَوْمَ ثُبُوراً وَاحِداً وَادْعُوا ثُبُوراً كَث۪يراً

La tadAAoo alyawma thubooran wahidanwadAAoo thubooran katheera

“Call not this day for one destruction, but call for many destructions!”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-furqan/verse-14.md_

### 25. Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 14

- **Form in this verse:** ثُبُورًۭا — thubūran · "(for) destructions"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

لَا تَدْعُوا الْيَوْمَ ثُبُوراً وَاحِداً وَادْعُوا ثُبُوراً كَث۪يراً

La tadAAoo alyawma thubooran wahidanwadAAoo thubooran katheera

“Call not this day for one destruction, but call for many destructions!”

_https://quran.so/surah-al-furqan/verse-14.md_

### 84. Surah Al-Inshiqaq, Verse 11

- **Form in this verse:** ثُبُورًۭا — thubūran · "(for) destruction"
  - **Grammar:** noun · masculine · accusative case · indefinite

فَسَوْفَ يَدْعُوا ثُبُوراًۙ

Fasawfa yadAAoo thuboora

He will call for destruction,

_https://quran.so/surah-al-inshiqaq/verse-11.md_

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