Quran glossary · draft

عَجَزَ

be unable

To lack capacity for a required act.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: عجز

Lemmas: عجز

Forms: عَجَزْ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

5:31

فَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ غُرَابًا يَبْحَثُ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ لِيُرِيَهُۥ كَيْفَ يُوَٰرِى سَوْءَةَ أَخِيهِ قَالَ يَٰوَيْلَتَىٰٓ أَعَجَزْتُ أَنْ أَكُونَ مِثْلَ هَٰذَا ٱلْغُرَابِ فَأُوَٰرِىَ سَوْءَةَ أَخِى فَأَصْبَحَ مِنَ ٱلنَّٰدِمِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal core tested across all 26 family occurrences and targets. Form I states inability; Form IV finite and participial forms profile causing another's capacity to fail or trying to escape divine reach; Form III participles accompany striving against the signs and remain semantically reviewable. عَجُوز profiles a woman whose advanced age is highlighted in contexts of birth or survival. The two أَعْجَاز نخل segments instead name physical palm-trunk bases after destructive wind and are isolated as an exact lexical collision. No protected or pre-run meaning was edited.