ثُمَّ
Thumma: then
The 34th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
ثُمَّ (thumma) means "then". It appears 338 times in the Quran, making it the 34th most common word: about 0.44% of all the words you read.
#34most common word
338times in the Quran
0.44%of all the words
298ayahs it appears in
Example from the Quran
ثُمَّ كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ
An-Naba 78:5 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:28.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways ثُمَّ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- ثُمَّ337×
- أَثُمَّ1×
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.