Quran glossary · draft

ذنب

allotted share

An allotted share of an impending outcome comparable to the share assigned to earlier counterparts.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 2

Roots: ذنب

Lemmas: ذنوب

Forms: ذَنُوبًا · ذَنُوبِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

51:59

فَإِنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ذَنُوبًا مِّثْلَ ذَنُوبِ أَصْحَٰبِهِمْ فَلَا يَسْتَعْجِلُونِ

51:59

فَإِنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ذَنُوبًا مِّثْلَ ذَنُوبِ أَصْحَٰبِهِمْ فَلَا يَسْتَعْجِلُونِ

Where other meanings fail

culpable offense

51:59

فَإِنَّ لِلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا۟ ذَنُوبًا مِّثْلَ ذَنُوبِ أَصْحَٰبِهِمْ فَلَا يَسْتَعْجِلُونِ

Alternative: culpable offense

Research rendering: allotted share

Substitution fails here: culpable offense would impose the first unit's predicate on a segment whose frozen form and Quran-internal construction require allotted share. This is the concrete contradiction supporting the lexeme partition.