| Order | Occurrence | Arabic | Without diacritics | Pronunciation | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At-Tawbah Verse 77 (9:77:0) | اَخْلَفُوا | اخلفوا | aḣlefû | they broke | خ ل ف |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | So He hath put as a consequence(1332) hypocrisy into their hearts, (to last) till the Day, whereon they shall meet Him: because they broke their covenant with Allah, and because they lied (again and again).* | |||||
| 2 | At-Tawbah Verse 118 (9:118:0) | خُلِّفُواۜ | خلفوا | ḣullifû | were left behind | خ ل ف |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | (He turned in mercy also) to the three who were left behind; (they felt guilty)(1370) to such a degree that the earth seemed constrained to them, for all its spaciousness, and their (very) souls seemed straitened to them,- and they perceived that there is no fleeing from Allah (and no refuge) but to Himself. Then He turned to them, that they might repent: for Allah is Oft-Returning, Most Merciful.* | |||||
| 3 | At-Tawbah Verse 120 (9:120:0) | يَتَخَلَّفُوا | يتخلفوا | yeteḣallefû | they remain behind | خ ل ف |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | It was not fitting for the people of Medina and the Bedouin Arabs of the neighbourhood, to refuse to follow Allah.s Messenger, nor to prefer their own lives to his: because nothing could they suffer or do, but was reckoned to their credit as a deed of righteousness,- whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of Allah, or trod paths to raise the ire of the Unbelievers, or received any injury(1371) whatever from an enemy: for Allah suffereth not the reward to be lost of those who do good;-* | |||||