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verb
لَبِثَ
Rootل ب ث
English Translationto remain, to stay, to hesitate, to delay
Frequency30
FormI
Surah Ta-Ha (20:40) Quran.com
فَلَبِثْتَ سِنِينَ فِي أَهْلِ مَدْيَنَ ثُمَّ جِئْتَ عَلَىٰ قَدَرٍ يَا مُوسَىٰ [And We favored you] when your sister went and said, 'Shall I direct you to someone who will be responsible for him?' So We restored you to your mother that she might be content and not grieve. And you killed someone, but We saved you from retaliation and tried you with a [severe] trial. And you remained [some] years among the people of Madyan. Then you came [here] at the decreed time, O Moses. (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Ahqaf (46:35) Quran.com
كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَ مَا يُوعَدُونَ لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا سَاعَةً مِنْ نَهَارٍ So be patient, [O Muhammad], as were those of determination among the messengers and do not be impatient for them. It will be - on the Day they see that which they are promised - as though they had not remained [in the world] except an hour of a day. [This is] notification. And will [any] be destroyed except the defiantly disobedient people? (Sahih International)
Surah Ar-Rum (30:55) Quran.com
وَيَوْمَ تَقُومُ السَّاعَةُ يُقْسِمُ الْمُجْرِمُونَ مَا لَبِثُوا غَيْرَ سَاعَةٍ And the Day the Hour appears the criminals will swear they had remained but an hour. Thus they were deluded. (Sahih International)
Surah Ash-Shuara (26:18) Quran.com
قَالَ أَلَمْ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَلِيدًا وَلَبِثْتَ فِينَا مِنْ عُمُرِكَ سِنِينَ [Pharaoh] said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life? (Sahih International)
Surah Ta-Ha (20:103) Quran.com
يَتَخَافَتُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ إِنْ لَبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا عَشْرًا They will murmur among themselves, "You remained not but ten [days in the world]." (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Kahf (18:12) Quran.com
ثُمَّ بَعَثْنَاهُمْ لِنَعْلَمَ أَيُّ الْحِزْبَيْنِ أَحْصَىٰ لِمَا لَبِثُوا أَمَدًا Then We awakened them that We might show which of the two factions was most precise in calculating what [extent] they had remained in time. (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Isra (17:52) Quran.com
يَوْمَ يَدْعُوكُمْ فَتَسْتَجِيبُونَ بِحَمْدِهِ وَتَظُنُّونَ إِنْ لَبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا On the Day He will call you and you will respond with praise of Him and think that you had not remained [in the world] except for a little." (Sahih International)
Surah Yunus (10:45) Quran.com
وَيَوْمَ يَحْشُرُهُمْ كَأَنْ لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا سَاعَةً مِنَ النَّهَارِ يَتَعَارَفُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ And on the Day when He will gather them, [it will be] as if they had not remained [in the world] but an hour of the day, [and] they will know each other. Those will have lost who denied the meeting with Allah and were not guided (Sahih International)
Surah An Naziat (79:46) Quran.com
كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَا It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained [in the world] except for an afternoon or a morning thereof. (Sahih International)
Surah As-Saffat (37:144) Quran.com
لَلَبِثَ فِي بَطْنِهِ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ يُبْعَثُونَ He would have remained inside its belly until the Day they are resurrected. (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Ahzab (33:14) Quran.com
ثُمَّ سُئِلُوا الْفِتْنَةَ لَآتَوْهَا وَمَا تَلَبَّثُوا بِهَا إِلَّا يَسِيرًا And if they had been entered upon from all its [surrounding] regions and fitnah had been demanded of them, they would have done it and not hesitated over it except briefly. (Sahih International)
Surah Ar-Rum (30:56) Quran.com
لَقَدْ لَبِثْتُمْ فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ إِلَىٰ يَوْمِ الْبَعْثِ But those who were given knowledge and faith will say, "You remained the extent of Allah 's decree until the Day of Resurrection, and this is the Day of Resurrection, but you did not used to know." (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Ankabut (29:14) Quran.com
فَلَبِثَ فِيهِمْ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ إِلَّا خَمْسِينَ عَامًا And We certainly sent Noah to his people, and he remained among them a thousand years minus fifty years, and the flood seized them while they were wrongdoers. (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Muminun (23:114) Quran.com
قَالَ إِنْ لَبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا لَوْ أَنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ He will say, "You stayed not but a little - if only you had known. (Sahih International)
Surah Al-Muminun (23:113) Quran.com
قَالُوا لَبِثْنَا يَوْمًا أَوْ بَعْضَ يَوْمٍ فَاسْأَلِ الْعَادِّينَ They will say, "We remained a day or part of a day; ask those who enumerate." (Sahih International)