Quran glossary · draft

وكد

confirmation

The act of making a pledge firm and binding.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 1

Roots: وكد

Lemmas: توكيد

Forms: تَوْكِيدِ

Occurrence examples (1 of 1)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 1.

16:91

وَأَوْفُوا۟ بِعَهْدِ ٱللَّهِ إِذَا عَٰهَدتُّمْ وَلَا تَنقُضُوا۟ ٱلْأَيْمَٰنَ بَعْدَ تَوْكِيدِهَا وَقَدْ جَعَلْتُمُ ٱللَّهَ عَلَيْكُمْ كَفِيلًا إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَعْلَمُ مَا تَفْعَلُونَ

Why this meaning was chosen

The sole form II verbal noun is the completed action after which oaths must not be broken, and God has been made guarantor over them. The intensified derived form is represented as strengthening the oath's binding force.