خُذُوهُ فَٱعْتِلُوهُ إِلَىٰ سَوَآءِ ٱلْجَحِيمِ
Quran glossary · draft
عتل
brutal
To act with coarse overpowering force that disregards resistance.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2
Roots: عتل
Lemmas: اعتل · عتل
Forms: ٱعْتِلُ · عُتُلٍّۭ
Occurrence examples (2 of 2)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.
عُتُلٍّۭ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ زَنِيمٍ
Why this meaning was chosen
Both occurrences were inspected together. Punishment agents drag a condemned person into Hell by force, while the adjective completes a profile of aggressive moral coarseness. Event and agent-characteristic forms are compositional.