بَيْنَ
Bayna: between
The 47th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
بَيْنَ (bayna) means "between". It appears 266 times in the Quran, making it the 47th most common word: about 0.34% of all the words you read.
#47most common word
266times in the Quran
0.34%of all the words
217ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِ
At-Tariq 86:7 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:66.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways بَيْنَ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- بَيْنَ70×
- بَيْنَهُمْ42×
- بَيْنَهُمَا22×
- بَيْنَكُمْ18×
- بَيْنَنَا13×
The count includes every form of the word: singular and plural, and with endings like "the", "and" or "his" attached.
Related words from the same root
بَيْنَ comes from the root ب ي ن. Other common words from this root: مُبِين (clear).
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.