Quran glossary · draft

سَحَرَ

bewitch

Active Form I directs the sorcery effect toward a person's perception or judgment.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: سحر

Lemmas: سحر

Forms: سَحَرُ · تَسْحَرَ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

7:116

قَالَ أَلْقُوا۟ فَلَمَّآ أَلْقَوْا۟ سَحَرُوٓا۟ أَعْيُنَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَٱسْتَرْهَبُوهُمْ وَجَآءُو بِسِحْرٍ عَظِيمٍ

7:132

وَقَالُوا۟ مَهْمَا تَأْتِنَا بِهِۦ مِنْ ءَايَةٍ لِّتَسْحَرَنَا بِهَا فَمَا نَحْنُ لَكَ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 63 family occurrences were reviewed on one page, with no protected segments or compacted candidates. Quran 2:102 anchors a taught, harmful practice that can separate spouses; Quran 7:116 anchors manipulation of people's eyes and fear; Quran 20:66 calls the produced effect imagined. Three vocalized سَحَر occurrences instead denote the pre-dawn time: 3:17 and 51:18 locate seeking forgiveness then, while 54:34 locates rescue then. Those three form an exact Quran-internal homograph branch, and the other 60 targets compose from sorcery by noun, voice, agent, intensity, and recipient morphology.