Quran glossary · draft

قِسْطَاس

balance

A true balance used to determine weight without fraud.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: قسطس

Lemmas: قسطاس

Forms: قِسْطَاسِ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

17:35

وَأَوْفُوا۟ ٱلْكَيْلَ إِذَا كِلْتُمْ وَزِنُوا۟ بِٱلْقِسْطَاسِ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمِ ذَٰلِكَ خَيْرٌ وَأَحْسَنُ تَأْوِيلًا

26:182

وَزِنُوا۟ بِٱلْقِسْطَاسِ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمِ

Why this meaning was chosen

Both family occurrences were reviewed on one page with the seven aligned recitation witnesses. The witnesses preserve the known initial-vowel variation between قِسْطَاس and قُسْطَاس, while both verses use the noun with ‘straight’ in the same command to weigh fairly.