Discover the meaning of the word Bull / Agitation (ثور) in the Quran, with 5 verses in which it appears, and a detailed explanation from Al-Raghib al-Asfahani's Mufradat fi gharib al-Qur'an.
ثور
Bull / Agitation
Root: ث - ر
Quranic language 5 verses
Updated on 29 May 2026 at 7:00 AM
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Definition of Bull / Agitation
Thâra al-ghubâr (the dust rose): it scattered while rising.
One says 'athartuhû' (I raised it).
Allah says: 'And raise thereby (fa-atharna) dust' (Al-'Âdiyât: 4).
This verb describes horses galloping, raising dust with their hooves.
He said, "He says, 'It is a cow neither trained to plow the earth nor to irrigate the field, one free from fault with no spot upon her.' " They said, "Now you have come with the truth." So they slaughtered her, but they could hardly do it.
Have they not traveled through the earth and observed how was the end of those before them? They were greater than them in power, and they plowed the earth and built it up more than they have built it up, and their messengers came to them with clear evidences. And Allah would not ever have wronged them, but they were wronging themselves.
It is Allah who sends the winds, and they stir the clouds and spread them in the sky however He wills, and He makes them fragments so you see the rain emerge from within them. And when He causes it to fall upon whom He wills of His servants, immediately they rejoice
And it is Allah who sends the winds, and they stir the clouds, and We drive them to a dead land and give life thereby to the earth after its lifelessness. Thus is the resurrection.