# Se-Vav-Ra — ثور (vwr)

> Occurs in 5 verses of the Quran.

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

- **Meaning:** To rise and spread in the air (dust), be stirred (quarrel), be kindled (war), rush on, assault anyone, till (the ground). athaara - to plough, break up (the earth). atharana - raising up (clouds of dust).
- **Derived forms:** أَثَارُ (5)

## Verses containing this root

### 2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 71

- **Form in this verse:** تُثِيرُ — tuthīru · "to plough"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

قَالَ اِنَّهُ يَقُولُ اِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌ لَا ذَلُولٌ تُث۪يرُ الْاَرْضَ وَلَا تَسْقِي الْحَرْثَۚ مُسَلَّمَةٌ لَا شِيَةَ ف۪يهَاۜ قَالُوا الْـٰٔنَ جِئْتَ بِالْحَقِّۜ فَذَبَحُوهَا وَمَا كَادُوا يَفْعَلُونَ۟

Qala innahu yaqoolu innahabaqaratun la thaloolun tutheeru al-arda walatasqee alhartha musallamatun la shiyata feehaqaloo al-ana ji/ta bilhaqqi fathabahoohawama kadoo yafAAaloon

He said: “He says: ‘She is a heifer neither broken to plough the earth nor to water the tilth, perfect, no blemish on her.’” They said: “Now hast thou brought the truth.” Then they sacrificed her, but they had hardly done it.

_https://quran.so/surah-al-baqarah/verse-71.md_

### 30. Surah Ar-Rum, Verse 9

- **Form in this verse:** وَأَثَارُوا۟ — wa-athārū · "and they dug"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, masculine, plural · past tense

اَوَلَمْ يَس۪يرُوا فِي الْاَرْضِ فَيَنْظُرُوا كَيْفَ كَانَ عَاقِبَةُ الَّذ۪ينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْۜ كَانُٓوا اَشَدَّ مِنْهُمْ قُوَّةً وَاَثَارُوا الْاَرْضَ وَعَمَرُوهَٓا اَكْثَرَ مِمَّا عَمَرُوهَا وَجَٓاءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُمْ بِالْبَيِّنَاتِۜ فَمَا كَانَ اللّٰهُ لِيَظْلِمَهُمْ وَلٰكِنْ كَانُٓوا اَنْفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَۜ

Awa lam yaseeroo fee al-ardi fayanthurookayfa kana AAaqibatu allatheena min qablihimkanoo ashadda minhum quwwatan waatharoo al-ardawaAAamarooha akthara mimma AAamarooha wajaat-humrusuluhum bilbayyinati fama kana Allahuliyathlimahum walakin kanoo anfusahumyathlimoon

Have they not travelled in the earth and seen how was the final outcome of those who were before them? They were stronger than them in power, and they tilled the earth and inhabited it more than they have inhabited it; and their messengers came to them with clear signs; and God wronged them not, but they wronged their souls.

_https://quran.so/surah-ar-rum/verse-9.md_

### 30. Surah Ar-Rum, Verse 48

- **Form in this verse:** فَتُثِيرُ — fatuthīru · "so they raise"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

اَللّٰهُ الَّذ۪ي يُرْسِلُ الرِّيَاحَ فَتُث۪يرُ سَحَاباً فَيَبْسُطُهُ فِي السَّمَٓاءِ كَيْفَ يَشَٓاءُ وَيَجْعَلُهُ  كِسَفاً فَتَرَى الْوَدْقَ يَخْرُجُ مِنْ خِلَالِه۪ۚ فَاِذَٓا اَصَابَ بِه۪ مَنْ يَشَٓاءُ مِنْ عِبَادِه۪ٓ اِذَا هُمْ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ

Allahu allathee yursilu arriyahafatutheeru sahaban fayabsutuhu fee assama-ikayfa yashao wayajAAaluhu kisafan fatara alwadqayakhruju min khilalihi fa-itha asaba bihiman yashao min AAibadihi itha humyastabshiroon

God is He who sends the winds, that they stir up a cloud, and He spreads it in the sky as He wills; and He makes it pieces and thou seest the rain come forth from the midst of it; then when He makes it fall on whom He wills of His servants they rejoice

_https://quran.so/surah-ar-rum/verse-48.md_

### 35. Surah Fatir, Verse 9

- **Form in this verse:** فَتُثِيرُ — fatuthīru · "so that they raise"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, feminine, singular · present tense

وَاللّٰهُ الَّـذ۪ٓي اَرْسَلَ الرِّيَاحَ فَتُث۪يرُ سَحَاباً فَسُقْنَاهُ اِلٰى بَلَدٍ مَيِّتٍ فَاَحْيَيْنَا بِهِ الْاَرْضَ بَعْدَ مَوْتِهَاۜ  كَذٰلِكَ النُّشُورُ

Wallahu allathee arsalaarriyaha fatutheeru sahaban fasuqnahuila baladin mayyitin faahyayna bihi al-ardabaAAda mawtiha kathalika annushoor

And God is He who sends the winds, that they stir up a cloud; and We drive it to a dead land, and give life thereby to the earth after its death. Thus is the Resurrection.

_https://quran.so/surah-fatir/verse-9.md_

### 100. Surah Al-'Adiyat, Verse 4

- **Form in this verse:** فَأَثَرْنَ — fa-atharna · "Then raise"
  - **Grammar:** verb · pattern of if'al · 3rd person, feminine, plural · past tense

فَاَثَرْنَ بِه۪ نَقْعاًۙ

Faatharna bihi naqAAa

Raising thereby dust

_https://quran.so/surah-al-adiyat/verse-4.md_

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