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What Does Al-adhab (الْعَذَاب) Mean in the Quran?

الْعَذَاب
al-adhab
the punishment
Word type
noun

This page studies الْعَذَاب as the written form shown in the mushaf. Attached letters and related inflections are studied separately so the examples stay precise.

In the Quran
85 times

Counted from Barakah’s bundled word-by-word Quran data for this exact written form after vowel marks are removed. Forms with attached letters or pronouns may have their own separate count.

Inside the Quran

الْعَذَاب (al-adhab) means the punishment. It refers to punishment or chastisement and appears in warnings meant to turn people back before consequences arrive.

Read it inside the complete ayat below. The surrounding words decide the most natural English rendering, so the translation may use more than one English phrase for the same Arabic form.

See it in real ayat
وَأَنَّ عَذَابِى هُوَ ٱلْعَذَابُ ٱلْأَلِيمُ

And that it is My punishment which is the painful punishment.

فَيُعَذِّبُهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْعَذَابَ ٱلْأَكْبَرَ

Then Allāh will punish him with the greatest punishment.

إِنَّكُمْ لَذَآئِقُوا۟ ٱلْعَذَابِ ٱلْأَلِيمِ

Indeed, you [disbelievers] will be tasters of the painful punishment,

Arabic quoted letter for letter from the Uthmani text of our Quran reader. Translation: Saheeh International.

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