Quran glossary · draft

عبأ

care about

To give someone weight and attentive concern.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: عبأ

Lemmas: يعبؤا

Forms: يَعْبَؤُا۟

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

25:77

قُلْ مَا يَعْبَؤُا۟ بِكُمْ رَبِّى لَوْلَا دُعَآؤُكُمْ فَقَدْ كَذَّبْتُمْ فَسَوْفَ يَكُونُ لِزَامًۢا

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole form I imperfect appears in a rhetorical question about what concern the Lord would have for the addressed people were it not for their calling. The interrogative and conditional particles remain external to the frozen segment and frame its attention-and-weight relation.