فَوَسْوَسَ لَهُمَا ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ لِيُبْدِىَ لَهُمَا مَا وُۥرِىَ عَنْهُمَا مِن سَوْءَٰتِهِمَا وَقَالَ مَا نَهَىٰكُمَا رَبُّكُمَا عَنْ هَٰذِهِ ٱلشَّجَرَةِ إِلَّآ أَن تَكُونَا مَلَكَيْنِ أَوْ تَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلْخَٰلِدِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
وَسْوَسَ، وَسْوَاس
concealed inward prompting
A source introduces a recurrent prompt into a person's inward awareness without making public address part of the lexical assertion.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 5
Roots: وسوس
Lemmas: وسوس · وسواس
Forms: وَسْوَسَ · تُوَسْوِسُ · وَسْوَاسِ · يُوَسْوِسُ
Occurrence examples (5 of 5)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 5.
فَوَسْوَسَ إِلَيْهِ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ قَالَ يَٰٓـَٔادَمُ هَلْ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَىٰ شَجَرَةِ ٱلْخُلْدِ وَمُلْكٍ لَّا يَبْلَىٰ
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِۦ نَفْسُهُۥ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ ٱلْوَرِيدِ
مِن شَرِّ ٱلْوَسْوَاسِ ٱلْخَنَّاسِ
ٱلَّذِى يُوَسْوِسُ فِى صُدُورِ ٱلنَّاسِ
Where other meanings fail
human self-talk only
7:20
فَوَسْوَسَ لَهُمَا ٱلشَّيْطَٰنُ لِيُبْدِىَ لَهُمَا مَا وُۥرِىَ عَنْهُمَا مِن سَوْءَٰتِهِمَا وَقَالَ مَا نَهَىٰكُمَا رَبُّكُمَا عَنْ هَٰذِهِ ٱلشَّجَرَةِ إِلَّآ أَن تَكُونَا مَلَكَيْنِ أَوْ تَكُونَا مِنَ ٱلْخَٰلِدِينَ
Alternative: the pair's own selves prompted them
Research rendering: the adversary whispered inwardly to the pair
The adversary is the explicit grammatical subject, so the core cannot require self-agency even though the self is source at 50:16.
public proclamation
50:16
وَلَقَدْ خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ وَنَعْلَمُ مَا تُوَسْوِسُ بِهِۦ نَفْسُهُۥ وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنْ حَبْلِ ٱلْوَرِيدِ
Alternative: the self publicly proclaims it to an audience
Research rendering: the self prompts inwardly with it
The self is the source within the person, and no external audience or public-address frame appears.
speech content
114:4
مِن شَرِّ ٱلْوَسْوَاسِ ٱلْخَنَّاسِ
Alternative: the evil of the retreating sentence
Research rendering: the evil of the retreating persistent whisperer
The definite noun is an agent antecedent whose following relative clause states what it does; it does not name the proposition itself.
ordinary audible conversation
114:5
ٱلَّذِى يُوَسْوِسُ فِى صُدُورِ ٱلنَّاسِ
Alternative: the one who converses audibly in the chests of people
Research rendering: the one who whispers within the chests of people
The في phrase explicitly locates the prompting inside people's chests rather than between audible conversational partners.