Quran glossary · draft

إِسْرَافُ قَوْمِ لُوطٍ

cross sexual limits

To cross the sexual limit specified in the clause.

Lexical scope

Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 2

Roots: سرف

Lemmas: مسرف

Forms: مُّسْرِفُونَ · مُسْرِفِينَ

Occurrence examples (2 of 2)

Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 2.

7:81

إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ ٱلرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ ٱلنِّسَآءِ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ

51:34

مُّسَوَّمَةً عِندَ رَبِّكَ لِلْمُسْرِفِينَ

Why this meaning was chosen

Quran-internal comparison across all 23 occurrences supports boundary-crossing excess. The most explicit calibration is 25:67, where spending is neither سرف nor constriction but a stable position between them. Parallel commands forbid سرف in produce, eating, drinking, and retaliatory killing, while wider contexts apply the same core to sexual transgression, oppressive command, denial, and wrongdoing against oneself. No compacted candidate, protected meaning, or reading divergence affects the analysis.