Quran glossary · draft

خِيَانَة

betrayal

An event of violating entrusted loyalty.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: خون

Lemmas: خيانة

Forms: خِيَانَةً · خِيَانَتَ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

8:58

وَإِمَّا تَخَافَنَّ مِن قَوْمٍ خِيَانَةً فَٱنۢبِذْ إِلَيْهِمْ عَلَىٰ سَوَآءٍ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلْخَآئِنِينَ

8:71

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

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.