Quran glossary · draft

نَعَم affirmative particle

affirm the immediately prior proposition

Commit the respondent to the truth of the proposition posed or asserted in the immediately preceding discourse and license its stated consequence.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 4

Lemmas: نعم

Forms: نَعَمْ

Occurrence examples (4 of 4)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 4.

7:44

وَنَادَىٰٓ أَصْحَٰبُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ أَصْحَٰبَ ٱلنَّارِ أَن قَدْ وَجَدْنَا مَا وَعَدَنَا رَبُّنَا حَقًّا فَهَلْ وَجَدتُّم مَّا وَعَدَ رَبُّكُمْ حَقًّا قَالُوا۟ نَعَمْ فَأَذَّنَ مُؤَذِّنٌۢ بَيْنَهُمْ أَن لَّعْنَةُ ٱللَّهِ عَلَى ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ

7:114

قَالَ نَعَمْ وَإِنَّكُمْ لَمِنَ ٱلْمُقَرَّبِينَ

26:42

قَالَ نَعَمْ وَإِنَّكُمْ إِذًا لَّمِنَ ٱلْمُقَرَّبِينَ

37:18

قُلْ نَعَمْ وَأَنتُمْ دَٰخِرُونَ

Where other meanings fail

no

7:114

قَالَ نَعَمْ وَإِنَّكُمْ لَمِنَ ٱلْمُقَرَّبِينَ

Alternative: he said, no, and indeed you will be among those brought near

Research rendering: he said, yes, and indeed you will be among those brought near

The following promise confirms rather than rejects the requested reward.