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Also there are other word count "miracles" where the "bad" word has the same number as the "good" word. Like ''iman''/''kufr'', ''paradise''/''hell''. So why suddenly count double word counts? | Also there are other word count "miracles" where the "bad" word has the same number as the "good" word. Like ''iman''/''kufr'', ''paradise''/''hell''. So why suddenly count double word counts? | ||
=="The Sabbath" mentioned 7 times== | |||
===Mental gymnastics=== | |||
The Sabbath (ٱلسَّبْت, ''as-sabt'') is a day of the week, when Jews are supposed to not work. So what is miraculous about this word being mentioned 7 times according to apologists? Well, it is the 7th day of the week. So the word count of "seven Sabbaths" somehow implies the meaning "the 7th day". | |||
===The list=== | |||
The word Sabbath is derived from the root سبت (s-b-t). This is a list of all occurrences of words derived from this root in the Qur'an: | |||
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!Total count | |||
!Verse | |||
!Word in Arabic | |||
!Transliteration | |||
!Translation | |||
!Word class | |||
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|1||2:65||ٱلسَّبْتِ||''as-sabti''||the Sabbath||noun | |||
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|2||4:47||ٱلسَّبْتِ||''as-sabti''||the Sabbath||noun | |||
|- | |||
|3||4:154||ٱلسَّبْتِ||''as-sabti''||the Sabbath||noun | |||
|- | |||
|4||7:163||ٱلسَّبْتِ||''as-sabti''||the Sabbath||noun | |||
|- | |||
|5||7:163||سَبْتِهِمْ||''sabtihim''||'''their''' Sabbath *||noun | |||
|- | |||
|6||7:163||يَسْبِتُونَ||''yasbitoona''||they had Sabbath **||'''verb''' | |||
|- | |||
|7||16:124||ٱلسَّبْتُ||''as-sabtu''||the Sabbath||noun | |||
|- | |||
|8||25:47||سُبَاتًا||''subatan''||a rest||noun | |||
|- | |||
|9||78:9||سُبَاتًا||''subatan''||a rest||noun | |||
|} | |||
* (*) The second occurrence in the verse 7:163, "their Sabbath" (سَبْتِهِمْ, ''sabt'''ihim''''') has the possessive pronoun "their" suffixed as ''-ihim'' | |||
* (**) The third occurrence in the verse 7:163, يَسْبِتُونَ (''yasbitoona''), is not the noun "Sabbath", but it is a verb. This verb has no simple equivalent in English. It refers to "having Sabbath", so the verse literally says that they "Sabathed". It is translated as "they had Sabbath", but the noun "Sabbath" is not present in the original Arabic, so this cannot be counted as an occurrence of "Sabbath". | |||
===Conclusion=== | |||
* The word Sabbath (ٱلسَّبْت) appears '''5 times''' in the Qur'an if we count only the basic form ٱلسَّبْت (without any prefixes and suffixes). | |||
* The word appears 6 times if we count also the form with a suffix (''sabtihim'', 7:163). | |||
** Forms with suffixes were excluded in many apologetic word counts for other words (for example "Iman and kufr both mentioned 25 times"), so why would we count them now? | |||
* The 7th word (''yasbitoona'') counted by apologists is '''a verb'''. It is not the noun "Sabbath". | |||
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