A look at signification of ‘then’ in the Holy Quran

‘Then’ as one of conjunctions, has many usages in Arabic language. Since one of its usages is in the religious texts and the Holy Quran so that its different usages effect on the style, meaning, and concepts, and also, due to the sensitivity and significance of the Holy Quran, understanding the exact meaning of this conjunction, i.e. ‘then’, and studying its various states in different verses is essential and of high level of importance. Different verbal and semantic aspects of ‘then’ will be discussed in this paper by a descriptive-analytic method. The findings of the present research indicates that ‘then’ has been repeated 330 times in the Holy Quran, but it has different meaning in different verses. Also, lingual and rhetorical points in various verses show that it has another meaning in addition to equivocation, sequence, and delay which they are important in terms of rhetorical aspects.