Quran glossary · draft

جِبِلَّة

created human multitude

A numerous collective of human beings viewed as a created population or generation.

Lexical scope

Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 2

Roots: جبل

Lemmas: جبلة

Forms: جِبِلَّةَ · جِبِلًّا

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

26:184

وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُمْ وَٱلْجِبِلَّةَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

36:62

وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنكُمْ جِبِلًّا كَثِيرًا أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعْقِلُونَ

Where other meanings fail

mountains

36:62

وَلَقَدْ أَضَلَّ مِنكُمْ جِبِلًّا كَثِيرًا أَفَلَمْ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعْقِلُونَ

Alternative: Satan led many mountains from among you astray

Research rendering: Satan led a great human multitude from among you astray

From among you and susceptibility to satanic misguidance require human members, contradicting the terrain lexeme.