Quran glossary · draft

اللَّدَد

be obstinately contentious

Entrenched contentiousness that drives forceful opposition in dispute.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: لدد

Lemmas: ألد · لد

Forms: أَلَدُّ · لُّدًّا

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

2:204

وَمِنَ ٱلنَّاسِ مَن يُعْجِبُكَ قَوْلُهُۥ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا وَيُشْهِدُ ٱللَّهَ عَلَىٰ مَا فِى قَلْبِهِۦ وَهُوَ أَلَدُّ ٱلْخِصَامِ

19:97

فَإِنَّمَا يَسَّرْنَٰهُ بِلِسَانِكَ لِتُبَشِّرَ بِهِ ٱلْمُتَّقِينَ وَتُنذِرَ بِهِۦ قَوْمًا لُّدًّا

Why this meaning was chosen

Both occurrences were reviewed. One elative marks an individual as extreme in dispute, and one collective adjective characterizes a people by entrenched opposition.