لَمْ
Lam: did not
The 32nd most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
لَمْ (lam) means "did not". It appears 348 times in the Quran, making it the 32nd most common word: about 0.45% of all the words you read.
#32most common word
348times in the Quran
0.45%of all the words
328ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
أَلَمْ نَجْعَلِ ٱلْأَرْضَ مِهَٰدًا
An-Naba 78:6 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:6.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways لَمْ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- لَمْ89×
- أَلَمْ78×
- لَّمْ74×
- وَلَمْ47×
- أَوَلَمْ35×
Small words like this are among the most frequent in the Quran. The count includes every time it appears, including with "and" or "so" attached.
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.