Quran glossary · draft

تَصِفُ أَلْسِنَة

characterize falsely

With tongues as subject and falsehood as object, the verb depicts speech actively formulating a false characterization.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: وصف

Lemmas: يصف

Forms: تَصِفُ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

16:62

وَيَجْعَلُونَ لِلَّهِ مَا يَكْرَهُونَ وَتَصِفُ أَلْسِنَتُهُمُ ٱلْكَذِبَ أَنَّ لَهُمُ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ لَا جَرَمَ أَنَّ لَهُمُ ٱلنَّارَ وَأَنَّهُم مُّفْرَطُونَ

16:116

وَلَا تَقُولُوا۟ لِمَا تَصِفُ أَلْسِنَتُكُمُ ٱلْكَذِبَ هَٰذَا حَلَٰلٌ وَهَٰذَا حَرَامٌ لِّتَفْتَرُوا۟ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ٱلْكَذِبَ إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ يَفْتَرُونَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ ٱلْكَذِبَ لَا يُفْلِحُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

All 14 family occurrences were reviewed on one bounded page; every occurrence is a frozen target, with no protected records or compacted candidates. Form I imperfect verbs compose person, number, gender, and indicative mood; the verbal noun composes the act or product of characterizing. Theological objects invite the contextual rendering ascribe, ordinary disputed accounts remain describe, and explicit tongues make the verbal production of falsehood salient. These are contextual applications of one worded-characterization core, not Quran-internal contradictions. No aligned reading payload or unresolved issue remains.