قَالُوا۟ تَٱللَّهِ تَفْتَؤُا۟ تَذْكُرُ يُوسُفَ حَتَّىٰ تَكُونَ حَرَضًا أَوْ تَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْهَٰلِكِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
فتأ
cease
To cease is to stop continuing an action or state.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 1
Roots: فتأ
Lemmas: تفتؤا
Forms: تَفْتَؤُا۟
Occurrence examples (1 of 1)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.
Where other meanings fail
continue
12:85
قَالُوا۟ تَٱللَّهِ تَفْتَؤُا۟ تَذْكُرُ يُوسُفَ حَتَّىٰ تَكُونَ حَرَضًا أَوْ تَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلْهَٰلِكِينَ
Alternative: you will not continue remembering Joseph
Research rendering: you will not cease remembering Joseph
Retaining the constructional negation over a positive 'continue' core predicts that Jacob stops remembering, reversing the clause's persistence to the stated endpoint.