Surah Al-Ankaboot · Ayah 40·Makkī

40

فَمِنْهُم مَّنْ عَلَيْهِ وَمِنْهُم مَّنْ وَمِنْهُم مَّنْ بِهِ وَمِنْهُم مَّنْ وَمَا وَلَٰكِن ﴿٤٠﴾

Translation

Saheeh International

So each We seized for his sin; and among them were those upon whom We sent a storm of stones, and among them were those who were seized by the blast [from the sky], and among them were those whom We caused the earth to swallow, and among them were those whom We drowned. And Allah would not have wronged them, but it was they who were wronging themselves.

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Tafsīr

No commentary indexed for this ayah yet.

Verse DNA · this āyah at a glance

Vocabulary and recitation are counted from the morphology and the Uthmani marks; commentary reports whether an authored tafsīr entry reaches this āyah. A structural read, not a judgement — a denser strip is not a weightier verse.

Vocabulary · 13 roots in 16 of 28 words

Rarest here: ح-ص-ب 5× in the Qurʾān

Recitation · 40 points across 8 rule families

  • Ikhfāʾ13
  • Madd ṭabīʿī11
  • Idghām shafawī6
  • Ghunnah4
  • Lām shamsiyyah3
  • Heavy rāʾ1
  • Qalqalah1
  • Heavy Allāh1

Commentary

No tafsīr entry reaches this āyah yet — the interpretive layer covers a pilot, not the whole Book.

Shape

28 words · 124 letters · 1 proper noun · āyah 40 of 69

once in the Qurʾān2–10×11–50×51–300×300+×

Similar verses by meaning

Ranked by semantic similarity over translation embeddings — a model’s proxy for meaning, not a claim about it, and not tafsīr. Verses may be kin in theme while differing entirely in wording.

  • وَمَا ظَلَمْنَٰهُمْ وَلَٰكِن ظَلَمُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ فَمَآ أَغْنَتْ عَنْهُمْ ءَالِهَتُهُمُ ٱلَّتِى يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مِن شَىْءٍ لَّمَّا جَآءَ أَمْرُ رَبِّكَ وَمَا زَادُوهُمْ غَيْرَ تَتْبِيبٍ

    And We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. And they were not availed at all by their gods which they invoked other than Allah when there came the command of your…

  • فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَنَجَّيْنَٰهُ وَمَن مَّعَهُۥ فِى ٱلْفُلْكِ وَجَعَلْنَٰهُمْ خَلَٰٓئِفَ وَأَغْرَقْنَا ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا فَٱنظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلْمُنذَرِينَ

    And they denied him, so We saved him and those with him in the ship and made them successors, and We drowned those who denied Our signs. Then see how was the end of those who were…

  • قَالَ عَمَّا قَلِيلٍ لَّيُصْبِحُنَّ نَٰدِمِينَ

    [Allah] said, "After a little, they will surely become regretful."

  • فَٱلْتَقَمَهُ ٱلْحُوتُ وَهُوَ مُلِيمٌ

    Then the fish swallowed him, while he was blameworthy.

  • فَأَكْثَرُوا۟ فِيهَا ٱلْفَسَادَ

    And increased therein the corruption.

  • وَأَنزَلَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَٰهَرُوهُم مِّنْ أَهْلِ ٱلْكِتَٰبِ مِن صَيَاصِيهِمْ وَقَذَفَ فِى قُلُوبِهِمُ ٱلرُّعْبَ فَرِيقًا تَقْتُلُونَ وَتَأْسِرُونَ فَرِيقًا

    And He brought down those who supported them among the People of the Scripture from their fortresses and cast terror into their hearts [so that] a party you killed, and you took…

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Ranked by shared vocabulary (idf-cosine over each verse’s root-set). Shared words are a fact about form — they do not by themselves mean two verses are about the same thing.

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    ح-ص-بخ-س-فر-س-ل

  • Al-Hijr 15:832 shared roots

    فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ مُصْبِحِينَ

    ص-ي-حأ-خ-ذ

  • Al-Anfaal 8:545 shared roots

    كَدَأْبِ ءَالِ فِرْعَوْنَ وَٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمْ فَأَهْلَكْنَٰهُم بِذُنُوبِهِمْ وَأَغْرَقْنَآ ءَالَ فِرْعَوْنَ وَكُلٌّ كَانُوا۟ ظَٰلِمِينَ

    غ-ر-قذ-ن-بظ-ل-مك-ل-لك-و-ن

  • Al-Mulk 67:172 shared roots

    أَمْ أَمِنتُم مَّن فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ أَن يُرْسِلَ عَلَيْكُمْ حَاصِبًا فَسَتَعْلَمُونَ كَيْفَ نَذِيرِ

    ح-ص-بر-س-ل

  • Al-Qamar 54:342 shared roots

    إِنَّآ أَرْسَلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ حَاصِبًا إِلَّآ ءَالَ لُوطٍ نَّجَّيْنَٰهُم بِسَحَرٍ

    ح-ص-بر-س-ل

  • Al-Hijr 15:732 shared roots

    فَأَخَذَتْهُمُ ٱلصَّيْحَةُ مُشْرِقِينَ

    ص-ي-حأ-خ-ذ

Questions

Which verses are similar to Quran 29:40?

Verses close in meaning to Quran 29:40 include Quran 11:101 (Surah Hud), Quran 10:73 (Surah Yunus), Quran 23:40 (Surah Al-Muminoon), and Quran 37:142 (Surah As-Saaffaat). For example, 11:101 reads: “And We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. And they were not availed at all by their gods which they invoked other than Allah when there came the command of your…” These are ranked by comparing translations of every verse in the Qurʾān, so they are a measure of similar wording and theme — not a tafsīr ruling.

What does Quran 29:40 say?

In Saheeh International, Quran 29:40 (Surah Al-Ankaboot, The Spider) reads: “So each We seized for his sin; and among them were those upon whom We sent a storm of stones, and among them were those who were seized by the blast [from the sky], and among them were those whom We caused the earth to swallow, and among them were those whom…”

Which surah is verse 29:40 in?

Quran 29:40 is āyah 40 of Surah Al-Ankaboot (The Spider), chapter 29 of the Qurʾān — a Meccan (Makkī) surah of 69 verses.

In how many languages can I read Quran 29:40?

Tartīl presents Quran 29:40 in the original Arabic alongside 34 translations, with audio recitation.