Quran glossary · draft

ذنب

allotted share

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

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · 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

Why this meaning was chosen

Singular ذَنْب and plural ذُنُوب are consistently owned, confessed, forgiven, or made grounds of punishment. The two ذَنُوب forms in 51:59 instead denote an allotted share comparable to that of earlier companions; their immediate parallel is distributive rather than culpability, so they are isolated as a lexical collision.