فَهَزَمُوهُم بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ وَقَتَلَ دَاوُۥدُ جَالُوتَ وَءَاتَىٰهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمُلْكَ وَٱلْحِكْمَةَ وَعَلَّمَهُۥ مِمَّا يَشَآءُ وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّفَسَدَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
Quran glossary · draft
هزم
decisive defeat
To break an opposing collective's effective force through decisive defeat.
Lexical scope
Scope: semantic unit · Occurrences: 3
Roots: هزم
Lemmas: هزم · مهزوم
Forms: هَزَمُ · مَهْزُومٌ · يُهْزَمُ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
جُندٌ مَّا هُنَالِكَ مَهْزُومٌ مِّنَ ٱلْأَحْزَابِ
سَيُهْزَمُ ٱلْجَمْعُ وَيُوَلُّونَ ٱلدُّبُرَ
Where other meanings fail
kill
2:251
فَهَزَمُوهُم بِإِذْنِ ٱللَّهِ وَقَتَلَ دَاوُۥدُ جَالُوتَ وَءَاتَىٰهُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْمُلْكَ وَٱلْحِكْمَةَ وَعَلَّمَهُۥ مِمَّا يَشَآءُ وَلَوْلَا دَفْعُ ٱللَّهِ ٱلنَّاسَ بَعْضَهُم بِبَعْضٍ لَّفَسَدَتِ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ ذُو فَضْلٍ عَلَى ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ
Alternative: they killed them by God's permission, and Dawud killed Jalut
Research rendering: they defeated them by God's permission, and Dawud killed Jalut
The two coordinated verbs distinguish collective defeat from the separately named killing.
victorious
38:11
جُندٌ مَّا هُنَالِكَ مَهْزُومٌ مِّنَ ٱلْأَحْزَابِ
Alternative: a host of the factions, victorious there
Research rendering: a host of the factions, decisively defeated there
The passive patient morphology and cross-family rout evidence place the host on the losing side.
minor setback
54:45
سَيُهْزَمُ ٱلْجَمْعُ وَيُوَلُّونَ ٱلدُّبُرَ
Alternative: the assembled force will suffer a minor setback and turn their backs
Research rendering: the assembled force will be decisively defeated and turn their backs
Immediate collective flight is incompatible with a merely slight interruption of effectiveness.