Quran glossary · draft

خَانَ

betray

To breach loyalty owed within an entrusted relation.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 5

Roots: خون

Lemmas: خان

Forms: تَخُونُ · خَانُ · أَخُنْ · خَانَ

Occurrence examples (5 of 5)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 5.

8:27

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَخُونُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱلرَّسُولَ وَتَخُونُوٓا۟ أَمَٰنَٰتِكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

8:27

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ لَا تَخُونُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ وَٱلرَّسُولَ وَتَخُونُوٓا۟ أَمَٰنَٰتِكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ

8:71

وَإِن يُرِيدُوا۟ خِيَانَتَكَ فَقَدْ خَانُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ مِن قَبْلُ فَأَمْكَنَ مِنْهُمْ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمٌ حَكِيمٌ

12:52

ذَٰلِكَ لِيَعْلَمَ أَنِّى لَمْ أَخُنْهُ بِٱلْغَيْبِ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يَهْدِى كَيْدَ ٱلْخَآئِنِينَ

66:10

ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًا لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ ٱمْرَأَتَ نُوحٍ وَٱمْرَأَتَ لُوطٍ كَانَتَا تَحْتَ عَبْدَيْنِ مِنْ عِبَادِنَا صَٰلِحَيْنِ فَخَانَتَاهُمَا فَلَمْ يُغْنِيَا عَنْهُمَا مِنَ ٱللَّهِ شَيْـًٔا وَقِيلَ ٱدْخُلَا ٱلنَّارَ مَعَ ٱلدَّٰخِلِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal core tested across all 16 family occurrences and targets. Form I violates loyalty owed to Allah, the messenger, entrusted deposits, another person, or a spouse. Form VIII directs that breach back against the acting selves. The verbal noun names the breach, خائن profiles its agents, and intensive خَوَّان profiles a repeated betrayer. The feminine خائنة is contextualized separately at 5:13 and 40:19 because its precise act-versus-agent scope is not fixed by morphology alone. No protected meaning, audit candidate, or exact lexical collision was present.